Ghost Cadet (Turtleback)

Then Hugh staggered.

"NO!" Benjy screamed, but he knew it was too late. Hugh pitched backward, croaking for breath, his arms still flung up in the air, still gripping his musket.

In Elain Marie Alphin's The Ghost Cadet, a ten- year-old boy named Benjy Stark goes from his home in Rochester, New York, to visit his divorced father's mother who lives in New Market, Virginia, where a very important battle took place. While he is there, he has a ghostly encounter with a young cadet named Willam Hugh McDowell who is from the Virginia Military Institute. Hugh tells him that he has lost a family heirloom, a priceless gold watch. He must find it and return it to the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. Benjy must go to the reenactment of the battle of New Market. Will Benjy find the watch or get shot and remain in a ghostly limbo with Hugh forever?

The Ghost Cadet is ideal for upper elementary grades, and is a great book to devour. It is sort of sad though, because Benjy does not want Hugh to leave him because Hugh is the only friend he has ever had, while Hugh does not want to be killed all over again .

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In this story a kid 12 years of age, fights in the Civil War as a cadet. He came back as a ghost because he lost his family heirloom. Every year he looks for it and never finds it, until a boy also 12 years old, coms by and helps him find the watch. But, deep into the book they still have not found it. The ghost has to participate in a ghost battle every year.

This ghost boy materializes in front of benjy if he is called , and is known to live on the battle feld of New Market. He has to participate in a ghost world war every year and has to be shot and humiliated.
His family heirloom is a gold watch that his grandfather bought. It was past dawn the generations. After meny days of hard help and work from his friend, the ghost finally finds the watch, meaning he can participate in the ghost role call of his dream!

this good book is about a kid how looses his family heirloom and becomes a ghost bound to the battlefield until he finds it. A boy finds him shaking a tree after hundreds of years. This boy becomes good friends with the ghost and helps him find his family heirloom.

This book is a high casualty fantasy, so, if you like a good fantasy book, this book is for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
warning!!!!!! This book is not for every one!

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