“Hey, are you okay?” Katie knelt down, checking me out.
I nodded, struggling to get my breath back.
“What’s wrong with your sister?” she asked.
“You don’t want to know,” I panted.
“Of course I do,” she said. “I’m supposed to be in charge of you two until your parents get back.”
Just then I heard Sally’s little feet running across the kitchen floor. She was heading for the back door!
“Hurry!” I said. “We’ve got to stop her!”
I started running. Horrible thoughts exploded in my brain. What if Bobby did something terrible? What if he made my sister run into the lake, or out in front of a car?
Then she’d be like him forever. Another little ghost haunting this big creepy house.
I made myself run faster. “No, Sally! Stop!” I cried desperately.
I reached the kitchen just as Sally whipped the back door open.
She was too fast for me. In a second she’d be gone.
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About the Authors
Rodman Philbrick grew up on the coast of New Hampshire and has been writing since the age of sixteen. For a number of years he published mystery and suspense fiction for adults. Brothers & Sinners won the Shamus Award in 1994, and two of his other detective novels were nominees. In 1993 his debut young adult novel, Freak the Mighty, won numerous honors, and in 1998 was made into the feature film The Mighty, starring Sharon Stone and James Gandolfini. Freak the Mighty has become a standard reading selection in thousands of classrooms worldwide, and there are more than three million copies in print. In 2010 Philbrick won a Newbery Honor for The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg.
Lynn Harnett, who was married to Rodman Philbrick, passed away in 2012. She was a talented journalist, editor, and book reviewer, and she had a real knack for concocting scary stories that make the reader want to laugh, shriek with fear, and then turn the page to find out what happens next.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1995 by Rodman Philbrick and Lynn Harnett
Cover design by Connie Gabbert
ISBN: 978-1-4976-8535-2
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