Summer 2004 Review:

Ghost Fever is a bilingual book, meaning that each section of a story is written in both English and Spanish. The book is of a somewhat short length already, for a chapter book, so if you, like me, only read the English sections, you can imagine how short the book is, when all is said and done.

The book is about a man named Frank, and his 14-year-old daughter, Elena. They are living in a rental house the landlord rents for free because no one wants to live there. They don’t want to live there, because the house is haunted by the ghost of a girl Elena’s age who died falling off the roof of her house. Elena tried to do a deed the girl requested, and failed. She then came down with a terrible fever, and her grandmother insisted that they complete the task. Once Elena has, the fever goes away almost instantly. The book is always spooky that way.

And interesting style of writing is adopted by Joe Hayes. He writes through a first-person narrator, yet this narrator isn’t one of the characters, really, just someone who knows the stories well. He is actually another child that lives in this same small town.

I don’t think I’d recommend this book to anyone, but I wouldn’t say it was bad. I just couldn’t relate, and the book was slow and drawn out. It was okay, but I wouldn’t read it again.

~ Emma Shebat, , Canfield Village Middle School

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