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Original Title: | Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road, #1) |
ISBN: | 0152057277 (ISBN13: 9780152057275) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | 43 Old Cemetery Road #1 |
Characters: | Ignatius B. Grumply, Anita Sale, E. Gadds, Paige Turner, Seymour Hope, Frank N. Beans, Olive C. Spence |
Setting: | Ghastly, Illinois(United States) |
Literary Awards: | The Magnolia Award (2012) |
Kate Klise
Hardcover | Pages: 155 pages Rating: 4.02 | 7724 Users | 915 Reviews
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Title | : | Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road #1) |
Author | : | Kate Klise |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 155 pages |
Published | : | April 6th 2009 by HMH Books for Young Readers |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Humor. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Mystery. Paranormal. Ghosts |
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Enter at your own risk: You might just DIE laughing.The best-selling author Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road, hoping to find some peace and quiet so that he can crack a wicked case of writer's block.
But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied--by an eleven-year-old boy named Seymour, his cat, Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive.
And they have no intention of sharing!
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Ratings: 4.02 From 7724 Users | 915 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road #1)
Dying to Meet You: 43 Cemetary Road: Book One is a hilarious ghost story ( an oxymoron? ) which is cleverly written in the form of letter from I.B. Grumply to the two inhabitants of the house is renting for the summer. He's come to Ghastly, Illinois to cure his writer's block and publish his next book for children. While at Spence Mansion, he meets Seymour Hope, who has been abandoned by his paranormal researcher parents, Les and Diane Hope to run off to Europe on tour. Grumply, in time, becomesThe 2 sisters have collaborated again on another graphic epistolary novel, the first in a new series. I was getting sick of their other series, "Regarding the...", so I'm glad they've started a new one, with interesting and likeable characters. This story had a slow beginning--I almost gave up on it--but it picked up toward the end. I hope the next book in the series is a bit faster paced. A promising start to a new series.
I absolutely LOVED this book. I finished it in one sitting and laughed out loud. I cannot wait to read the rest of the series and sharing it with my students.
How I happened to read this book was kind of mysterious, appropriately enough.While cleaning my room last week I found, in a pile of papers, a scrap piece of paper with the words "Dying to Meet You" written on it. It was in my handwriting, but I had no memory of when I wrote it. I was pretty sure it was a book title though, so I looked it up on the library website and--tada! there it was.This was a really cute book! I didn't love it, but it made me feel like writing. Not only because the main
3.5 stars for this graphic epistolary mystery (thanks to the author for supplying that succint description.) Basically this is a children's mysery book writting in the epistolic style (story told through letters) and also graphically illustrated. A unique and original concept that totally works for this book. This is the story of Seymour, a young boy abandoned by his parents to live in a house with his best friend... a ghost named Olive. A renter appears for the summer, a grumpy author, and
I read the book 43 Old Cemetery Road Dying to Meet You, by Kate Klise. This book is about a writer with a bad case of writer's block. So he decided to rent a haunted house for the summer to give him some inspiration to write.The main setting of the story is the haunted house on 43 Old Cemetery Road. The story was told in first person by the main character, Ignasius. The main characters were Ignasius, olive, and Seymore. The main conflict is Ignasius vs. Olive, or Ignasius vs. himself.I liked the
43 Old Cemetery Road Series: Dying to Meet You by the Klise Sisters; 2011-2012 Sunshine State Young Reader Award Winner; Interest and Reading Level: 3rd-5th grade. Written as a series of correspondences, and newspaper articles, Dying to Meet You is a Ghost Story like none you have ever read before! The Klise Sisters' style reminds me of the successful partnership of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. Like Dahl's works, this story tells of a remarkable child born to terrible parents. Young Seymour
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