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The Haunting of Eagle Creek Middle School
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Blurb:
Halloween is right around the corner, and the girls find themselves in the middle of a hauntingly good mystery.
Sam, Ally, and Cassy help form a new club at their school in order to raise money for charities. Their first mission is to save a struggling program founded by a local widow, but the benefactor has some secrets.
It turns out that Eagle Creek Middle school has some secrets too, including a tragic story passed down for fifty years. Does a tormented ghost really roam the basement of the school?
While creating a haunted house to raise the needed donations, the young detectives uncover the shocking truth. One that will forever change the lives of people they have come to cherish.
Halloween is right around the corner, and the girls find themselves in the middle of a hauntingly good mystery.
Sam, Ally, and Cassy help form a new club at their school in order to raise money for charities. Their first mission is to save a struggling program founded by a local widow, but the benefactor has some secrets.
It turns out that Eagle Creek Middle school has some secrets too, including a tragic story passed down for fifty years. Does a tormented ghost really roam the basement of the school?
While creating a haunted house to raise the needed donations, the young detectives uncover the shocking truth. One that will forever change the lives of people they have come to cherish.
Twitter handle: @taraellisauthor
Each book can be read on their own, or you can start with book #1, The Mystery of Hollow Inn
Excerpt:
“Stop
trying to scare your sister.” Kathy Wolf points her fork at Hunter for
emphasis, but the glop of mashed potatoes falling off the end of it causes
smiles around the dinner table, instead of fear.
“But it’s true,
Mom,” Hunter counters, his grin widening. He has the same dark eyes and hair of
his father, but the short stature of his mom. Sam, on the other hand, is nearly
as tall as he is already. Ethan Wolf constantly tries to convince his son that
all of the Wolf men start to grow in their later teens, but Hunter believes
he’s destined to be forever smaller than his friends. “Everyone knows that
Eagle Creek Middle School is haunted. Right, John?” Nudging his best friend in
the ribs, Hunter shovels more of his dad’s famous meatloaf into his mouth.
“Umm…sure,” John confirms, glancing briefly at a
scowling Mrs. Wolf. His cheeks burning, he sets his own fork down, feeling a
need to explain himself. At sixteen, he’s two years older than Hunter and has a
greater sense of accountability than his friend.
“The story goes, that some fifty years ago, there
was a horrible accident in the boiler room under the school.”
“Is that what they used for heat?” Ally asks,
interrupting her brother.
“Yeah,” John confirms. “I think they converted
the school to a regular furnace some time ago, but the boiler is still there,
because it’s too expensive to remove it. Anyway,” he continues, looking around
the table at his captive audience, “the janitor pretty much worked there his
whole life. He knew what he was doing, but that night, something went terribly
wrong and he died in the mishap. Ever since, on cold nights, you can hear the
sounds of his ghost wandering the basement under the school, trying to fix the
boiler.”
“Oh, please,” Sam laughs it off. “That’s not even
all that impressive, as far as ghost stories go! But…” pausing with her glass
of water halfway to her mouth, she slams it back down and spins towards Ally.
“We should use that in the haunted house!” she shouts, bouncing in her chair.
“Have John dress up in an old janitor suit, or something.”
“Uhhmm,” Ethan clears his throat loudly, while
staring pointedly at his daughter. “Samantha, do you really think that would be
in good taste?”
“Yeah, Samantha,”
Hunter adds, not missing a chance to tease his sister. “Why would we want to
waste our time running around in a stupid kid’s thing, anyway?”
“Because it’s for a good cause,” Ally argues.
“And I agree with your dad,” she adds, turning back to Sam. “If someone really
did die, I wouldn’t want to make light of it. There’s a ton of other things we can
have them dress up as,” she quickly ads, seeing the defeated look on Sam’s
face. “John would make a good Frankenstein!”
Author Bio:
Author Tara Ellis lives in a small, rural town in Washington State, set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She enjoys the quiet lifestyle with her husband, two teenage kids and several dogs. Tara was a firefighter/EMT, and worked in the medical field for many years, before committing herself to writing young adult and middle grade novels full-time. (she still dabbles in teaching CPR)
