The Capitol Ghost

The Capitol Ghost

The Capitol Ghost

Sharon Whitlock

11,08 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
iUniverse
Año de edición:
2006
Materia
Ficción de crimen y misterio (infantil/juvenil)
ISBN:
9780595413423
11,08 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Añadir a favoritos

The Capitol Ghost is the story of ice skaters, street kids, coaches, criminals, and the ghosts that walk among them.Four children from the Preliminary Jazzicals Synchronized Skating Team enlist brainy teenager Karina Kowalski to help them hunt a ghost at the Capitol and save an elderly night watchman’s honor. Karina uncovers the first clue, an ancient prayer, and begins to trace the ghost through nearly sixty years of history. But what will Karina sacrifice in her zeal to help others? A figure skating test, a father, or even her own life?At the same time, a street gang in New York City is led by teenaged poet Dayshawn Rogers. When Dayshawn’s little sister is murdered, he requests help from Worldpol. Dayshawn designs a plan that Officer Chuck Zander uses to track down the murderer. But what will Dayshawn lose in his zeal to help others? A publishing deal, a father, or even his own life?Even though the two groups never meet, their lives intersect and influence not only Karina and Chuck, but also people they don’t know, people in this world and the next world.The Capitol Ghost is the second novel in the Jazzicals series about synchronized skating, the world’s fastest-growing ice skating sport.

Artículos relacionados

  • Cuentos malévolos
    Clemente Palma Ramírez / José Luis Torres Vitolas
    Apenas unos cuantos relatos le bastaron a Clemente Palma para instaurar el cuento moderno como género en el Perú. En sus textos, la amistad, la pena, la tristeza, la alegría o, incluso, hasta el amor, pueden constituir el mejor atajo para la crueldad y el horror. En esta ocasión, el libro contiene los doce relatos originales publicados en la primera edición del año 1904 en Barc...
    Disponible

    11,96 €

  • Puzzle of the Talking Monkey
    L.A. Wadsworth / L.AWadsworth
    The talking monkey might have been a joke, but there was nothing funny about blackmail! Puzzle of the Talking Monkey, by L.A. Wadsworth, is a classic mystery from the author of Mystery Off Pirate’s Point. ...
    Disponible

    18,58 €

  • The Mercer Boys’ Mystery Case
    Capwell Wyckoff
    When Cadets Don and Jim Mercer and their friend Terry Mackson were ordered by Colonel Morrell of Woodcrest Military Academy to gather together all the school trophies, they were able to find all except one-the cup awarded to the Class of 1933. What had happened to the cup was a mystery the boys were determined to solve. And little by little Don and Jim uncovered a strange story...
    Disponible

    16,43 €

  • The Mercer Boys’ Mystery Case
    Capwell Wyckoff
    When Cadets Don and Jim Mercer and their friend Terry Mackson were ordered by Colonel Morrell of Woodcrest Military Academy to gather together all the school trophies, they were able to find all except one-the cup awarded to the Class of 1933. What had happened to the cup was a mystery the boys were determined to solve. And little by little Don and Jim uncovered a strange story...
  • Janie’s Private Eyes
    Zilpha Keatley Snyder
    ...
    Disponible

    11,13 €

  • The Fox Hollow Mystery
    Mary Adrian
    Jeffrey wanted badly to belong to the Explorers Club. They took wonderful trips, had secret meetings and even had a shack all their own to have their meetings in. The trouble was that to join the club you had to discover something very unusual like a meteorite or a fossil, and Jeff hadn’t discovered anything -- yet! This story is another one of Mary Adrian’s exciting mysteries ...
    Disponible

    11,12 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Scheherazade Curse
    Sharon Whitlock
    'Little girls can accomplish a lot.'So says Officer Chuck Zander, Worldpol Juvenile Specialist, as he works with the Novice Jazzicals Synchronized Skating Team to thwart an international bioterrorism plot and rescue a kidnapped missionary who uses the nickname 'Scheherazade.'While struggling to overcome the 'curse' on their Scheherazade program music, the team helps Officer Zan...
    Disponible

    11,81 €