{"id":13906,"date":"2023-05-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2023-05-22T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:53:21","slug":"are-they-cursed-by-the-ghost-of-spruce-point-by-nancy-tandon-mg-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=13906","title":{"rendered":"Are they cursed by THE GHOST OF SPRUCE POINT? by Nancy Tandon (MG book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keeping track of the moon in his journal – check.
Learning to moderate his anxious tendencies – sort of check. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

June in their remote Maine coastal village means two things to 12-year-old Parker: best friend Frankie arrives from the city to spend her summer, and tourists come to his family’s inn for relaxation and Mom’s incredible cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankie is finally here, but the tourists aren’t. Only grumpy neighbor Mrs. Gruvlig would be pleased to have fewer people on Spruce Point – has she reawakened the curse that brought the sailing ship Westward<\/em> to wreck<\/a> upon its rocks long ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole Kids Confidential Meeting – Parker, little sister Bailey, their cousins from across the bay, and Frankie – brainstorm ways to save the inn, like more advertising and Mom leading cooking classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unceasing rain in usually bright June, dangerous-to-touch moths eating all the oak leaves, road to the inn flooding – it must be a curse!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are those floating green blobs of light in the cove?
Who (or what) is leaving things in the kids’ treehouse?
Why is there a ghost in Mrs. Gruvlig’s yard? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the sailors who died in the wreck of the Westward<\/em> are causing the troubles or maybe it’s closer to home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s your favorite ghost story?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: The Ghost of Spruce Point \/ Nancy Tendon. Aladdin \/ Simon & Schuster, 2022. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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