Ghosts I Have Been

Author: Peck, Richard

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reissue

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 224

Release Date: 23-04-2001

Part Number: FBA-|296700

Details: Product Description


Blossom Culp is the outspoken outcast of Bluff City, always getting into trouble. No one wants to cross her, especially now that she's revealed that she can see the Unseen. Then Blossom herself is stunned, because her lie turns out to be truth. She actually does have second sight...and she is "on board" the sinking Titanic.


Review


"First-class...an outrageous sequence of events charmed together with skillful wordwork." --
Booklist, starred review


About the Author


Born in Decatur, IIlinois, Richard Peck has written over 18 novels for young readers. He is the winner of the 1990 Margaret A. Edwards Award, a prestigious award sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association in cooperation with 
School Library Journal; the 1990 National Council of Teachers of English/ALAN Award for outstanding contributions to young adult literature; and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.


Peck says, "I want to write novels that ask honest questions about serious issues. A novel is never an answer; it's always a question." In 
The Last Safe Place on Earth, Peck deals with the serious issue of censorship, and young readers will have many questions long after the close the book.


Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.


From Blossom herself:
I tell you, the world is so full of ghosts, a person wonders if there’s a soul to be found on the Other Side, or anybody snug in a quiet grave. I’ve seen several haunts, and I’ve been one myself.
You’ve probably heard about me already. For a time I was the most famous girl in two countries. I’ve been called Ghost Girl and Fantastic Faker by turns. Numerous people have commented on my adventures in this world and others, but none could explain my Powers entirely, and many are liars outright.
My first glimpses into Worlds Unseen come as quite a surprise to me, among others. . . .
PUFFIN BOOKS BY RICHARD PECK
Are You in the House Alone?
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
Dreamland Lake
Father Figure
The Great Interactive Dream Machine
The Ghost Belonged to Me
Ghosts I Have Been
A Long Way from Chicago
Lost in Cyberspace
Strays Like Us
Table of Contents
Prologue
I TELL YOU, the world is so full of ghosts, a person wonders if there’s a soul to be found on the Other Side. Or anybody snug in a quiet grave. I’ve seen several haunts, and been one myself.
You’ve probably heard about me already. For a time I was the most famous girl in two countries. I’ve been called Ghost Girl and Fantastic Faker by turns. Numerous people have commented on my adventures in this world and others, but none could explain my Powers entirely, and many are liars outright.
I lived a full fourteen years without thought to having any extra talents of my own. Psychic Gifts were to me the advantages certain other people had, like good looks or regular meals. So my first glimpses into Worlds Unseen come as quite a surprise to me, among others.
Whether you be born with the Gift or attain it is often debated. As you’ll see, my Gift tended to creep up on me and would often pop out under pressure. Practice makes perfect, as the poet says. I seemed to refine my Powers as I went, much like learning to write a clear hand or driving one of the new automobiles.
All this was leading in a direction. At the start I was no more than a plain American girl with nothing going for me but spunk. Little did I know where my new-found talents would lead me—across tossing seas and into lives of high and low degree. I little knew the wickedness of this world until I saw beyond it.
Two fates were entwined: mine and the tormented ghost of a boy—a perfect stranger to me—who died a death I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began. We start up in the mists of mystery, and there we all end. And Souls drift like ground fog across a hundred worlds and far frontiers.
Many’s the ignorant person

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