Fiction Forum

In “Carly’s Ghost,” a children’s-to-young-adult novel by Peggy Tibbetts, twelve-year-old Carly Baillie moves with her family into a log cabin that apparently came pre-inhabited – by a ghost that has kept the house empty for two years! No one in town wants to mention to the Baillie family why the house has been empty for so long, and the family moved halfway across the country to be there, so they haven’t heard the rumors. In fact, in the bustle of unpacking, all that they know is that they are getting on each other’s nerves!

In the “Tail of the Sea Witch” by Wendy Maree Peterson, Marina is an eleven-year-old girl who lives on the north coast of Australia. She is a very whimsical pre-teen who names her bicycle “Sir Rustalot” and dreams of mermaids…”The Tail of the Sea Witch” begins as Marina narrates the story of her close friendship with a sea witch, who had green eyes and roseamberine hair, named Madame Witche.