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Summary: The beginning will draw you in.
Review: "Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts" is more of a time travel adventure story, than a ghost story. If you're looking for supernatural frights, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a historical-adventure told with an interesting storytelling method, then you've come to the right book. The reader will be so caught up in the time-traveling ghost story, that they won't realize they've just read a historical fiction - the premise is slavery. This book redeemed my faith in author Avi, solely by the way he chose to begin the book. Although the ending is abrupt and opened-ended, it's a good book for young readers to read over the summer. A sequel would have been most appropriate. I recommend.
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Summary: The beginning will draw you in.
Review: "Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts" is more of a time travel adventure story, than a ghost story. If you're looking for supernatural frights, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a historical-adventure told with an interesting storytelling method, then you've come to the right book. The reader will be so caught up in the time-traveling ghost story, that they won't realize they've just read a historical fiction - the premise is slavery. This book redeemed my faith in author Avi, solely by the way he chose to begin the book. Although the ending is abrupt and opened-ended, it's a good book for young readers to read over the summer. A sequel would have been most appropriate. I recommend.
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Summary: A cute read
Review: A cute and clever read for younger children. A ghost story with a neat twist.
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Summary: Something Upstairs review by Vanessa C.
Review: I particularly enjoyed the first three-quarters of the book. The descriptions of Providence, both past and present, were rich and satisfying. However, the ending was both predictable and open-ended. I felt a bit cheated at the last page -- I actually kept flipping through pages, thinking I had skipped something. The predictability I can understand (and happily overlook) in a children's book, but an extra few sentences at the end would really have put my mind at rest without precluding a sequel.
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Summary: Something Upstairs
Review: I thought this book, "Something Upstairs" was a great book for kids to read all over the nation. Avi knows how to write a mystery that catch people's hearts, and minds through the power of his words. He set the time of the book between the 1800's and the present with Caleb being a boy from the 1800's and haunting a house which Kenny lives in, in the present time. Kenny seeks to help Caleb escape his ghostly predicament only to find he is in danger of losing his life if they follow through with their joint plan. Their dilemna takes a dangerous twist and the reader will not know the outcome until the very end of the book.
"Something Upstairs" is a book that you will not want to put down. Enjoy reading!
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Summary: something upstairs
Review: Ir you like muders you will like this book. Its about a boy named kenny who finds a ghost named caleb. He helps him find his murder by going back in time.
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Summary: Something Upstairs by Avi
Review: Memories and unfound answers brought Caleb, a ghost of a boy slave back into the present for help. Looking back into the past and finding the truth of this mysterious murder of a slave boy, Caleb. Kenny, the new boy who moved into the house is on a mission to travel back into the past and help find the murderer who killed Caleb, so Caleb could be freed from the house and from the present world. Read and find out more in depth about what happens. Once you start reading it, it'll take you as long as it needs to finish without stopping. So sit back and enjoy this book.
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Summary: Something Upstairs Review
Review: Something Upstairs is a very enteresting book. If you like mysteries you will love this book. It's about a boy named
Kenny who just moved to Providence,Rhode Island. When he
moves ther he realizes the blood stain on the attic floor.
He goes to the libary to find information about who lived
ther before before him.At the libary he meet a guy named
Willinghast who tells him about a slave named Caleb who died in
his house. When Kenny comes home, that night he meet the ghost
named Caleb, and talked to him about his death. Kenny deicided
to help Caleb escape his past and in order to do this he has
to go to Caleb's time, will Kenny be able to find his way back
to his time,is the question.
The vocabulary in this book is easy to understand.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Something Upstairs
By: Avi
This story starts out with a child telling the author of the book about an event that he experienced. The story is about a boy named Kenny. He moves from his house in California to Rhode Island. Upstairs, there is a dark stain on the floor. At night, the ghost of a young boy comes out of the stain. All that the ghost does is feel around on the wall as if looking for a way out. The ghost seems scared of Kenny. After several meetings, the ghost talks to Kenny. The ghost's name is Caleb. When he was alive, he was a slave. Caleb does not trust him at all. He wants Kenny to help him pass on to the afterlife. He would do this by going back in time and preventing Caleb's murder. I liked this book because it kept you guessing on what was about to happen. This book was very well written and descriptive about the characters and surroundings. I would recommend choosing to read this book if you like mysteries and suspense.
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Summary: Semi-good Book
Review: Something Upstairs
Kenny, a new kid in town, has just moved here from the majestic state of California (...and by here I mean Providence, Rhode Island.) As he comes into his new home he wonders why his parents have made him move to this place of old buildings, and it was very muggy and stifling. Rhode Island was much different then his home town of Los Angeles. Kenny thinks it's much more boring than California but he is in for a surprise. Not very anxious to see his new town, he stays inside his house on Sheldon Street. Backtracking a little bit, when Kenny was going to his new house something caught his eye: a sign that read "Daniel Stillwell 1769". It was the name of the original owner of the house. So, the first night at Kenny's new house was normal until Kenny heard a noise from one of the small rooms in his new attic room. He went to check and something was moving the bookcase his mom put there to cover the stain on the floor. To Kenny's surprise in his own room there was something upstairs other than him. As Kenny walked ever so closely, he sees a ghostly figure appearing. Who would've known that something that rarely ever happens anywhere happens here in the little town of Providence (a.k.a. Boresville, U.S.A.). Many nights pass and every night the ghost comes around 3:00 AM. Kenny decides to befriend the ghost whose name is Caleb. Once Caleb is befriended, he asks Kenny a favor. (See, Caleb was murdered at the ripe old age of 16 - He was a slave. Yes -- a slave. So now Caleb is a ghost from the past. Now it's getting interesting.) Caleb was a slave for Daniel Stillwell. (There's that name again.) So back to the story... Caleb wanted Kenny to find his killer. It seems very hard and Kenny thought he was joking but Caleb was very serious and candid. Kenny was giving Caleb a heavy look, and Kenny was still incredulous at the idea, but he knew by the demanding, scornful look in Caleb's eyes that Caleb was being serious.
The book, Something Upstairs, is good book but only if you're reading it with a group because it is a very confusing book. I myself think that it would be hard to read independently because you would not have anyone to talk to about the book.
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