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"Grief Cottage," by Gail Godwin. This story is much more than a haunting by a "ghost-boy" seen by an 11-year-old boy who obsesses over it as he wrestles with the past and develops pivotal relationships that reveal his true nature.

Diane McGuire, Valley Bookseller, Stillwater

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