| Authors: |
Avi, 1937-
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction.
Photography -- History -- Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Fiction.
Ghost stories
Horror fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c2008. |
| Description: |
202 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0060000163 (reinforced) 9780060000165 (reinforced) 9780060000158 (trade bdg.) 0060000155 (trade bdg.) |
| Notes: |
A Junior Library Guild selection |
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| Tags |
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| Summary: |
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn. |