Ten year-old Christina Rose hates made-up ghost stories, the ones you find in books. That's because she knows what real ghosts are like. When Christina was three, she saw her mother's ghost the night she died in a plane crash--only no one, not even her father, believed her. Now her family has moved to North Klondike, California, and her next-door neighbor and soon-to-be friend Roberto Wing announces that the new house is haunted by two very creepy ghosts named the Widow and Hans Hanson. Strange things start to happen, and the ever suspicious Christina wonders if phantoms really do haunt the house. To investigate, Roberto, Christina, and her brother Danny team up to form a ghost-hunters' club and enlist the aid of parapsychologist I. Barrymore and the mysterious Madame Olga. The club members find that everyone has a real ghost story to share--some funny, some foolish, and some quite frightening. You can read a list of the stories in the book--or even Chapter 1. You can also read what reviewers have written. Published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin. Ages 8 & up.

 

The Very Real Ghost Book of Christina Rose. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Dell paperback edition, 1998.