Fiction

Category: ReviewAuthor: Lindsay CurrieGenres: Fiction, Ghost Stories, Horror, Middle Grade, Thriller, To-readA ghost story about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the two together. Claire has absolutely no interest in the paranormal. 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. 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. There’s something off about his presence, especially because when she checks at the end of the tour…he’s gone. Claire tries to brush it off, she must be imagining things, letting her dad’s ghost stories get the best of her. But then the scratching starts. Voices whisper to her in the dark. The number 396 appears everywhere she turns. And the boy with the dark eyes starts following her. Claire is being haunted. The boy from the bus wants something…and Claire needs to find out what before it’s too late.“Scritch Scratch,” by Lindsay Currie, is bound to keep MG readers turning pages as they look to find out what will happen to the protagonist, Claire. Right from the start when Claire is asked to help her dad with his ghost tour business, the young reader will share Claire’s anxiety about being around ghosts. And, if they aren’t afraid of ghosts, they may be, like Claire, afraid of what their friends think Read more