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Book · Middle Grade

Something Upstairs

a tale of ghosts

by Avi

120 pages · 1988

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When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.

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