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One Potato, Two Potato 4 reviews
Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006
A fun book to read and re-read time and time again.
I really enjoyed this book. The story sounded a lot like one I had heard as a kid many years ago, but this one was different. It had a sweeter ending. It is 30 pages long with pretty good text and very good illustrations.
The story is about an old husband-wife farming team who is poor and frugal. One day when their food supply was about to run out they found a large magical iron pot buried on ...
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The Ghost of Poplar Point (Ghost Mysteries)1 review
Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2007
Fun, different ghostly story
Summer is finally here and 'ghost magnet' Allie is tired of dealing with ghosts and looking forward to non-ghostly fun - until a new ghost causes her to babble in a foreign language, haunts her dreams with frightening images, and challenges her life. Add in conflicts when a new rich girl steals Allie's role in an upcoming pageant and ghosts and world reality become especially action-packed in ...
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Weasel 67 reviews
Cynthia Defelice
Avon Camelot, 1991
A Very Good Book
" The state of Ohio, 1839..." thus begins the suspenseful horror story WEASEL by Cynthia DeFelice. I highly recommend this book for anyone who likes mysteries and scary stories, but mainly scary stories.
The main characters are a 10-year-old boy named Nathan and his little sister Molly who must rescue their father, along with the help of a man named Ezra, from an evil murderer called Weasel. ...
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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs (Ghost Mysteries) 12 reviews
Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2001
You Can Hear Anyone but You Can't Always See Them
After reading The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs by Cynthia DeFelice, I felt the connection between me and the character, Allie. She is one of those girls that like to have new experiences in her life even if she knows that it's a dangerous risk to take.
She decides to interview Mrs. Hobbs, the lunch lady, to discover the mystery of her ghost John Walker. She comes through a lot of fires every where she ...
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The Literacy Bridge - Large Print - The Missing Manatee (The Literacy Bridge - Large Print)2 reviews
Cynthia DeFelice
Thorndike Press, 2005
I Love this book!!!
My reading teacher read this book to my class before my school met Cynthia DeFelice. I was not a person who liked mystery books, until my teatcher read this book to my class. This is a book I recamend for only people that can read a novle. This is a wonderful book.
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The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker12 reviews
Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2007
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
I think this is a awsome book! I would recomend it to almost everyone, I think 8 and up it a good age! It has a couple gross parts but overall it has a good message!
A boy (Lucas) watches his whole family die and decides he has to get away from that terrible house so he tavels for days until he finds a job as a apprentice to a doctor. The doctor is amazing until one of his patients has a case ...
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Cold Feet 6 reviews
Cynthia DeFelice
DK CHILDREN, 2000
Great storytelling
This is a most wonderous take on a traditional Scottish folk tale. This story begs to be read aloud and works wonderfully in storytelling sessions.
Willie McPhee gets more than he bargins for when he takes the boots off a man he finds frozen in the woods. The story has a nice "gross-out" element that will appeal greatly to kids. DeFelice tells the story with excellent pacing that sets the ...
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The Literacy Bridge - Large Print - The Ghost of Cutler Creek (The Literacy Bridge - Large Print)1 review
Cynthia DeFelice
Thorndike Press, 2005
Read the Ghost of Cutler Creek! (the best book in the world)
This book is the best. First you have to read the first two books, The Ghost of Fossil Glen and The Ghost and Mrs.Hobbs, which are also the best books in the world. Allie comes back to face another ghost. Is this one evil or good? How can she tell if the ghost can only bark, whimper and fetch. Yup, Allie's new ghost is a dog. Once her teacher, Mr.Henry asks her to dog sit his dog Hoover, Hoover ...
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The Ghost of Fossil Glen71 reviews
Cynthia Defelice
Thorndike Press, 2000
PCE student review
I give this book 5 stars because it was very creative and scary.
I didn't want to put it down. This book was about a girl who
dies and needs help. The ghost asks a girl named Ally to help
her solve her mystery. If you like scary ghost stories or mysteries,
then you'll love this book just like I did. This book was written
by: Cynthia DeFelice.
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Under the Same Sky5 reviews
Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2005
Powerful
This book is awesome. I read it in one night. Everything started with a motorbike. Joe Penderson figured his parents would give it to him for his birthday. Instead,they gave him a job. Planting cabbage,picking strawberries,weeding and hoeing with a crew of Mexicans. Joe thinks it is a lousy way to spend a summer. At the end of the summer,however,he thinks differently. He realizes that no matter ...
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Nowhere to Call Home12 reviews
Cynthia Defelice
HarperTrophy, 2001
Deeply touching
This is a very interesting book. Lots of great characters, great details of the hobo life and the depression. Every detail was interesting. Frances finds herself all alone in life after her father loses his money in the stock market crash and takes his own life. Junius, who worked for the family, told Frances about the hobo life. When the family home is to be sold, Frances decides to take to ...
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The Dancing Skeleton
Cynthia DeFelice
Unknown, 1989
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Devil's Bridge (Avon Camelot Books)7 reviews
Cynthia Defelice
HarperTrophy, 1994
GREAT BOOK
We had to read this book in school and I was glad that the school finally picked a good book for us to read! The author makes it so realistic and you can't put the book down because it is so good. The author has a way of getting you interested and it keeps you guessing until the end. This is a great book for people who like to read and people who don't like to read.
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The Ghost of Fossil Glen1 review
Cynthia DeFelice
Recorded Books, 2000
This is my favorite book!
This book is a really good book. It is about a girl who moves to a new house and begins to hear a girl. Shes starts finding all theese clues. She finds out the girl shes hearing was murderd! Now it is her mission to find out who murdured her, and to make sure the murderer does not murder her too! This book is a well writen myserty and I recomend it for all 5th 6th and 7th graders to read this ...
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Bringing Ezra Back1 review
Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006
Good Kids' Book
Bringing Ezra Back is a sequel to DeFelice's Weasel (1990) and is set in 1840 on the Ohio Frontier. Twelve year old Nathan still has trouble trusting strangers since his frightening experience with a man named Weasel. When Nathan learns that his friend, Ezra, is in Pennsylvania with a traveling show of "human oddities", he knows he must find him and bring him home. As he journeys alongside a ...
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Nowhere to Call Home (Unabridged)
Cynthia Defelice, 1999
This realistic rags-to-riches (and back again) tale set in the time of Hoovervilles and bread lines follows a girl who takes up a hobos life. Sheltered, wealthy Frances Barrows world is thrown into chaos when her fathers factories go bankrupt and he kills himself during the Depression. When she hears a servants plan to become a hobo and ride the rails, 12-year-old Frances sees a way out of being sent from her home in Philadelphia to live with ...
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Casey in the Bath (Sunburst Book)
Cynthia DeFelice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1998
Bath time is Casey's least favorite time of day. He'll do anything to get out of taking a bath... until the Ambrosial Products salesman comes to call. Casey's mom, desperate for help, buys a bottle of soap from the strange little man, and Casey retires glumly to the bathroom. But with the first squirts of green goo into the bath water, bubbles begin to form. When Casey pops them--"Urp lrp lrp brp"--comical green creatures appear. Bath time will ...
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