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216 pp.
| Holt |
August, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-6158-4$$16.95
(3)
4-6
Alexander reluctantly goes with his father to visit Dad's girlfriend in North Carolina. During a Civil War reenactment, Alexander meets the ghost of a young Confederate soldier killed in battle. Richeson asks Alexander to help find out what happened to his family after the war. Alexander does museum research, and even travels back in time, as he solves the mystery and adjusts to his new family situation in this engaging novel.