Spooky Graveyards is a non-fiction series of books that are perfect for 5th- 7th graders.
I think getting kids interested in a book that is a series, helps them to read more books. Winner of children’s choice book award 2009.
Readers will find out in this scary trip through 11 of the world’s spookiest graveyards! Among the stops: Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Rhode Island. That’s where a little girl named Mercy Brown is buried. In the late 1800s, her family was hit by tuberculosis. First, her mother and sister died. Then Mercy herself became sick and died. In desperation to save his tubercular son, her father—who had become convinced that Mercy was a vampire rising from the grave each night to suck the life blood from her sibling—dug up her body, cut out her heart and burned it, and served the ashes to her brother. Such compelling historical nonfiction will keep readers eagerly turning the pages in this macabre exploration of the world of the dead.
The Complete
Scary Places Series:
Abandoned Insane Asylums-Creepy Castles-Ghost Towns-Haunted Hotels-Haunted Houses-Spooky Cemeteries
I think getting kids interested in a book that is a series, helps them to read more books. Winner of children’s choice book award 2009.
Readers will find out in this scary trip through 11 of the world’s spookiest graveyards! Among the stops: Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Rhode Island. That’s where a little girl named Mercy Brown is buried. In the late 1800s, her family was hit by tuberculosis. First, her mother and sister died. Then Mercy herself became sick and died. In desperation to save his tubercular son, her father—who had become convinced that Mercy was a vampire rising from the grave each night to suck the life blood from her sibling—dug up her body, cut out her heart and burned it, and served the ashes to her brother. Such compelling historical nonfiction will keep readers eagerly turning the pages in this macabre exploration of the world of the dead.
The Complete
Scary Places Series:
Abandoned Insane Asylums-Creepy Castles-Ghost Towns-Haunted Hotels-Haunted Houses-Spooky Cemeteries
Who would have thought this was non-fiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sound pretty gruesome but I guess that is what some kids like.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about kids reading more if the book was a series. It seems to me people like sequels and series of any good book,they can hardly wait for the next book to be released.
I don't know that this particular book would be suitable for 5th grade; especially the part about the father cutting out her heart and feeding it to her brother.ugh....