![]() ![]() Just as an aside, this isn't time travel as cultural immersion experience-it's a plot element, so we don't get any sort of fully realized historical setting. One day, Zoe follows her playmate up the forbidden back stairs off the kitchen, and makes a brief visit to the late 19th century-now she is the ghost, invisible to those around her (and not at all willing to repeat the experiment!). Of course, the reader makes the connection, especially since it is Underlined by the author.and realizes that Zoe Louise is ghost. When Zoe made friends with a mysterious playmate, Zoe Louise, who appeared one day out of nowhere-capricious, willful, entertaining Zoe Louise, who vanishes into the house when playtime is done, who the grown-ups don't see-she never thought of the gravestone. In the cemetery off in the woods by Zoe's grandparents' house was a headstone with just one word surviving-Zoe's own name. Stonewords, by Pam Conrad (HarperCollins, 1991, middle grade, 144 pages-books sure were shorter back then.) Note: usually I have a cover picture right up here in this part. ![]()
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