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Aladdin (2011), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 256 pages
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While spending the summer at The New Newbridge Academy where she will soon begin sixth grade, Noleen finds strange things happening and discovers the special talent her aunts saw in her when she was a motherless infant.
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LibraryThing member KimJD
From February 2011 SLJ:
Gr 46So that he can explore the Appalachians, Noleen Maypother's scientist father sends her off to her Aunt Clara's for the summerapparently without checking his sister's availability first. Noh arrives to find a vacant house and decides to take the train to New
Gr 46So that he can explore the Appalachians, Noleen Maypother's scientist father sends her off to her Aunt Clara's for the summerapparently without checking his sister's availability first. Noh arrives to find a vacant house and decides to take the train to New
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Newbridge, where her other aunt teaches at the academy. Since Noh will be a sixth grader there in the fall, it seems a logical solution. Aunt Sarah welcomes her and helps her get settled into the old boarding school. But as soon as she arrives, strange things start happening: she meets other children around the ruins of the burned-out West Wing and discovers that they are the ghosts of former students and that she is the only "realie" who can see them. And when her ghost friends start to disappear, it is up to her to solve the mystery and help the ghosts who are left. Benson incorporates some creative ingredients but fails to combine them in a satisfying way. The characters are two-dimensional, the dialogue is stilted, and the plotline so far-fetched and meandering that even the ghosts and the "nasty thing" that lurks in the background will fail to keep most students' attention. Occasional black-and-white drawings are scattered throughout and add nothing to the story. Readers with an interest in the paranormal are better directed to books by Mary Downing Hahn or to Elizabeth Cody Kimmel's "Suddenly Supernatural" series (Little, Brown).Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Show Less
LibraryThing member TheLibraryhag
Noh is spending the summer with her aunt, at the boarding school where her aunt is a teacher and where Noh will be attending as a student in the Fall. The campus is very quiet and empty so Noh goes exploring. After a while she meet a strange girl in an old dormitory that had been almost destroyed
This book was fun to read. I think tweens, both boys and girls, would enjoy it. There is a lot going on for a children's book so younger kids might have some trouble with it. I wish there were more books about Noh but so far there are not. Too bad. It could have been an interesting series.
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by fire and never rebuilt. Soon she sees some other kids and discovers that they are ghosts. Noh becomes friends with the ghostly kids but something is happening to the ghosts at the school. They are disappearing. Noh is determined to find out what is happening to these kids.This book was fun to read. I think tweens, both boys and girls, would enjoy it. There is a lot going on for a children's book so younger kids might have some trouble with it. I wish there were more books about Noh but so far there are not. Too bad. It could have been an interesting series.
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Original publication date
2010-08-31
Physical description
256 p.; 7.6 inches
ISBN
1416994262 / 9781416994268
Local notes
The New Newbridge Academy has a strange, storied history and a Gothic atmosphere, and since Noh’s aunt is a teacher there, it’s where she will be spending the summer while her father travels. Slightly eccentric Noh enjoys exploring the campus, but things get spooky when she meets several other children near an old burned-out dormitory: She’s been told no students reside at the school during the summer. The kids turn out to be ghosts, and they need Noh’s help. She is the only “realie” who can see them—and, now that the ghosts have started to disappear, she’s the only one who can save them.