Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma

By Joe Hayes, Mona Pennypacker
Paperback: $14.95

A bilingual ghost story just spooky enough to thrill middle grade readers!

Un cuento de fantasmas bilingüe, ¡para todos lectores jóvenes buscando un poco de espanto!

Description

Joe Hayes tells the story of a haunted house in a poor little town in Arizona. Nobody will rent that house because they know a ghost lives there. So the landlord tries to rents it out for free. Still nobody will rent it. That is, until Elena’s father takes advantage of the deal. He doesn’t believe in ghosts. Lucky for Elena that her grandmother knows all about the ways of ghosts. Elena, with the help of her grandmother, resolves the mystery of “ghost fever”–and learns a lesson about life.

Joe Hayes cuenta la historia de una casa embrujada en un pequeño pueblo pobre de Arizona. Nadie alquila esta casa porque saben que allí vive un fantasma. Así que el propietario trata de alquilarla gratis. De todas maneras, nadie la quiere alquilar. Hasta que el padre de Elena se aprovecha de la oferta. No cree en fantasmas. Por suerte para Elena, su abuela sabe todo sobre los caminos de los fantasmas. Elena, con la ayuda de su abuela, resuelve el misterio de la “fiebre de los fantasmas” y aprende una lección sobre la vida.

About the Creators

Joe Hayes

Joe Hayes is one of America's premier storytellers. He grew up in a small town in southern Arizona where he started learning Spanish from his classmates. As Hayes got older, he began reading the work of folklorists and anthropologists and gathering the old stories from the Southwest region. His books have received the Arizona Young Readers Award, two Land of Enchantment Children's Book Awards, the Texas Bluebonnet award, and the National Storytelling Network Talking Leaves Award. He lives in New Mexico.

Mona Pennypacker

Mona Pennypacker was originally trained in visual arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she earned her degree in Fine Arts with a minor in Latin American Art History. Mona splits her time between El Paso, Texas and Rome, Italy where she continues to study and create artwork in various mediums, including painting, printmaking and graphic design. This is her first book collaborating with her mother Vicki Trego Hill.

Awards

  • Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner

    Texas Library Association (TLA)

Reviews

  • "This is an ideal choice, whether in English or in the informed Spanish translation, for reluctant readers."

    - School Library Journal
  • "The English and Spanish text flows smoothly and invitingly, and Hayes's short chapters make this perfect for classroom read alouds, as well as for independent reading. Sure to be popular with young chapter book readers who enjoy a chill running down the spine, Ghost Fever is also recommended for reluctant older readers. Librarians and booksellers would do well to display and handtalk this title."

    - Críticas
  • "Simple black-and-white drawings throughout this bilingual book make it an easy page-turner and point up the important moral lessons included in the story. Fortunately, those moral lessons are based on compassion, tenderness, and hope, rather than dwelling on guilt and fear. Hayes's experience and friendship with the Latino community make his work both authentic and engaging."

    - Foreword Reviews

Paperback

  • ISBN 9781933693033
  • Price $14.95
  • Publication Date Sep 05, 2006
  • Trim Size 8.25 × 5.5 × 0.2 in
  • Weight 0.3125 lbs
  • Page Count 96
  • Interests

  • Imprint Cinco Puntos Press
  • Audience Middle Grade
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Holidays & Celebrations / Birthdays
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / Hispanic & Latino
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Readers / Intermediate
  • Themes Dual Language, Fantasy, Fiction, Latinx / Latino / Hispanic, Middle Grade, Mystery / Suspense, Overcoming Obstacles, Paranormal, Spanish
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 10 - 12
  • Grade Range Grades 4 - 6
  • Guided Reading T
  • Spanish Guided Reading U
  • ATOS Book Level 5.1
  • DRA 44
  • Interest Level Grades 5 - 8
  • Lexile Level 920
  • Reading Level Grades 4 - 5
  • Bebop Reading Fluent
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