What does Casley see in her? Claire also can't talk to her dad. Her best friend, Casley, has been hanging out with Emily whom Claire can't give the time of day to because she's so shallow-only talks about makeup. Why her? What makes her so special? Claire will have to deal with this problem alone. Before the night it out, she finds a paper with the number 396.Claire believes in science, yet she's just seen a ghost who appears to only her. She swears she saw something and finally sees a boy who is dressed rather oddly. Got it! She sees movement at one stop and goes onboard to find no one. it turns out to be fairly easy: pass out fliers, let her dad know how much time is left at each stop, and don't let anyone alone on the bus. How embarrassing! She does not want to be seen with her crazy dad on his ghost tour. Because of scheduling issues, Claire has to help her dad one night with his tour. His entire career revolves around ghosts-bringing the tragic history of Chicago alive on ghost tours. She refuses to "go all in" on her dad's ghost stories.
She counts when going into the dark alley at her home in Chicago. Franky, darkness scares me as it does Claire.
I thought this novel was the scariest of the scary novels on the list this year.Claire resembles me-it's not that I believe in ghosts, but I also am not going to visit haunted places. This novel is a 2022 Lone Star selection.
A book for middle school students, 5th grade to 9th grade.Pick up Scritch Scratch if you are looking for: The boy from the bus wants something.and Claire needs to find out what before it's too late. And the boy with the dark eyes starts following her.Ĭlaire is being haunted. The number 396 appears everywhere she turns. There's something off about his presence, especially because when she checks at the end of the tour…he's gone.Ĭlaire tries to brush it off, she must be imagining things, letting her dad's ghost stories get the best of her. She thinks she's made it through when she sees a boy with a sad face and dark eyes at the back of the bus. She's a scientist, which is why she can't think of anything worse than having to help out her dad on one of his ghost-themed Chicago bus tours. Stine, author of the Goosebumps seriesįor fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L Stine comes a chilling ghost story based on real Chicago history about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the two together.Ĭlaire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. "This is a teeth-chattering, eyes bulging, shuddering-and-shaking, chills-at-the-back-of-your-neck ghost story.
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