Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780590452441
ISBN number: 0590452444
Label: Scholastic Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: May 01, 1992
Publishing house: Scholastic Paperbacks
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 288696
Studio: Scholastic Paperbacks
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While spending his summer vacation at his grandmother's old Virginia home, Benjy Stark meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who died at the Battle of New Market during the Civil War. Reprint. AB.
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I thought that the story was good. IT had a good topic, because I happen to like War stories myself. I thought it was different from the ghost part though, put that is my opinion. It is a good history book and im glad I picked it as my book report. I encourage others to read this book as well.
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This is a great story that I read in the [...] It is highly accurate historically in parts. It tells the story of Benjy Stark, an 11 year old at his grandmother's house in New Market, Virginia. Here, he meets the ghost of a young Confederate soldier named William Hugh McDowell. He must find his family's heirloom, a pocketwatch. As it turns out, there was a Confederate soldier named William Hugh McDowell from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). He was killed at the battle of New Market. HIs pocketwatch, as well as his Bible, was never found. A great read for anyone.
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Marin
4/16/04
Then Hugh staggered.
"NO!" Benjy screamed, but he knew it was too late. Hugh pitched backward, croaking for breath, his arms still flung up in the air, still gripping his musket.
In Elain Marie Alphin's The Ghost Cadet, a ten- year-old boy named Benjy Stark goes from his home in Rochester, New York, to visit his divorced father's mother who lives in New Market, Virginia, where a very important battle took place. While he is there, he has a ghostly encounter with a young cadet named Willam Hugh McDowell who is from the Virginia Military Institute. Hugh tells him that he has lost a family heirloom, a priceless gold watch. He must find it and return it to the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. Benjy must go to the reenactment of the battle of New Market. Will Benjy find the watch or get shot and remain in a ghostly limbo with Hugh forever?
The Ghost Cadet is ideal for upper elementary grades, and is a great book to devour. It is sort of sad though, because Benjy does not want Hugh to leave him because Hugh is the only friend he has ever had, while Hugh does not want to be killed all over again .
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I liked this little book so much I put it in the Sons of Confederate Veterans merchandise catalog. I thought it was extremely well written. My 12 year old daughter enjoyed reading it very much after she visited the New Market battlefield. Where does the "expert reviewer" (above) get off criticizing this title just because it happens to present the Southern point of view? What makes our opinion worth less than anyone else's? I think it presents a refreshing change from the same, tired politically correct version of the war that other YA writers constantly espouse. If you are a Southerner looking for something different for your child (or just an open-minded parent), this is it.
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Did you know that boys had to fight in the war at the age of 12?
In this story a kid 12 years of age, fights in the Civil War as a cadet. He came back as a ghost because he lost his family heirloom. Every year he looks for it and never finds it, until a boy also 12 years old, coms by and helps him find the watch. But, deep into the book they still have not found it. The ghost has to participate in a ghost battle every year.
This ghost boy materializes in front of benjy if he is called , and is known to live on the battle feld of New Market. He has to participate in a ghost world war every year and has to be shot and humiliated.
His family heirloom is a gold watch that his grandfather bought. It was past dawn the generations. After meny days of hard help and work from his friend, the ghost finally finds the watch, meaning he can participate in the ghost role call of his dream!
this good book is about a kid how looses his family heirloom and becomes a ghost bound to the battlefield until he finds it. A boy finds him shaking a tree after hundreds of years. This boy becomes good friends with the ghost and helps him find his family heirloom.
This book is a high casualty fantasy, so, if you like a good fantasy book, this book is for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
warning!!!!!! This book is not for every one!
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