Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma
A bilingual ghost story just spooky enough to thrill middle grade readers!

Un cuento de fantasmas bilingüe, ¡para todos lectores jóvenes buscando un poco de espanto!

Joe Hayes tells the story of a haunted house in a poor little town in Arizona. Nobody will rent that house because they know a ghost lives there. So the landlord tries to rents it out for free. Still nobody will rent it. That is, until Elena's father takes advantage of the deal. He doesn't believe in ghosts. Lucky for Elena that her grandmother knows all about the ways of ghosts. Elena, with the help of her grandmother, resolves the mystery of "ghost fever"—and learns a lesson about life.

Joe Hayes cuenta la historia de una casa embrujada en un pequeño pueblo pobre de Arizona. Nadie alquila esta casa porque saben que allí vive un fantasma. Así que el propietario trata de alquilarla gratis. De todas maneras, nadie la quiere alquilar. Hasta que el padre de Elena se aprovecha de la oferta. No cree en fantasmas. Por suerte para Elena, su abuela sabe todo sobre los caminos de los fantasmas. Elena, con la ayuda de su abuela, resuelve el misterio de la "fiebre de los fantasmas" y aprende una lección sobre la vida.

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Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma
A bilingual ghost story just spooky enough to thrill middle grade readers!

Un cuento de fantasmas bilingüe, ¡para todos lectores jóvenes buscando un poco de espanto!

Joe Hayes tells the story of a haunted house in a poor little town in Arizona. Nobody will rent that house because they know a ghost lives there. So the landlord tries to rents it out for free. Still nobody will rent it. That is, until Elena's father takes advantage of the deal. He doesn't believe in ghosts. Lucky for Elena that her grandmother knows all about the ways of ghosts. Elena, with the help of her grandmother, resolves the mystery of "ghost fever"—and learns a lesson about life.

Joe Hayes cuenta la historia de una casa embrujada en un pequeño pueblo pobre de Arizona. Nadie alquila esta casa porque saben que allí vive un fantasma. Así que el propietario trata de alquilarla gratis. De todas maneras, nadie la quiere alquilar. Hasta que el padre de Elena se aprovecha de la oferta. No cree en fantasmas. Por suerte para Elena, su abuela sabe todo sobre los caminos de los fantasmas. Elena, con la ayuda de su abuela, resuelve el misterio de la "fiebre de los fantasmas" y aprende una lección sobre la vida.

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Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma

Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma

Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma

Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma

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A bilingual ghost story just spooky enough to thrill middle grade readers!

Un cuento de fantasmas bilingüe, ¡para todos lectores jóvenes buscando un poco de espanto!

Joe Hayes tells the story of a haunted house in a poor little town in Arizona. Nobody will rent that house because they know a ghost lives there. So the landlord tries to rents it out for free. Still nobody will rent it. That is, until Elena's father takes advantage of the deal. He doesn't believe in ghosts. Lucky for Elena that her grandmother knows all about the ways of ghosts. Elena, with the help of her grandmother, resolves the mystery of "ghost fever"—and learns a lesson about life.

Joe Hayes cuenta la historia de una casa embrujada en un pequeño pueblo pobre de Arizona. Nadie alquila esta casa porque saben que allí vive un fantasma. Así que el propietario trata de alquilarla gratis. De todas maneras, nadie la quiere alquilar. Hasta que el padre de Elena se aprovecha de la oferta. No cree en fantasmas. Por suerte para Elena, su abuela sabe todo sobre los caminos de los fantasmas. Elena, con la ayuda de su abuela, resuelve el misterio de la "fiebre de los fantasmas" y aprende una lección sobre la vida.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781933693033
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Publication date: 09/01/2006
Edition description: Bilingual Edition: English & Spanish
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.20(d)
Language: Spanish
Age Range: 10 - 12 Years

About the Author

Joe Hayes is one of America's premier storytellers. He grew up in a small town in southern Arizona where he started learning Spanish from his classmates. As Hayes got older, he began reading the work of folklorists and anthropologists and gathering the old stories from the Southwest region. His books have received the Arizona Young Readers Award, two Land of Enchantment Children's Book Awards, the Texas Bluebonnet Award, and the National Storytelling Network Talking Leaves Award. He lives in New Mexico.


Mona Pennypacker was originally trained in visual arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she earned her degree in Fine Arts with a minor in Latin American Art History. Mona splits her time between El Paso, Texas and Rome, Italy where she continues to study and create artwork in various mediums, including painting, printmaking and graphic design. This is her first book collaborating with her mother Vicki Trego Hill.

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