Sunday, March 14, 2010

Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise


Grades: 3-6

Committee Annotation: A writer moves into an old mansion expecting to find some peace and quiet to break his writer's block. Instead he finds that he is sharing living quarters with an 11-year-old boy and a ghost. The ghost does not plan to share anything with the writer, especially her home. The story is told through newspaper accounts and letters.

Subjects: Authors, Letters, Haunted Mansions, Ghosts, Humor, Friendships, Writer’s Block

Author Web Site: http://kateandsarahklise.com/

22 comments:

  1. shania meeting streetSeptember 21, 2010 at 2:48 PM

    it was a very good book me and my friends loved the it!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. i like somthinges about this book

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  3. i love this book it was so funny and entertaining

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  4. i really loved this book so much it was funny and entertaining to me and thats just my opinion for Mrs.Cardenti at Gladstone to see

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  5. KS CA
    5L Centeral
    I liked the book because they used names to describe what they were like I.B.Grumply.

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  6. erm
    5c Central
    I didn't like this book because with all of the names and setting and notes going back and forth with the characters, it is very confusing because you do not know who is who after a while. I would definitly not recommend this book to anybody!
    =)

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  7. A.M.
    5C Central

    This book was a great book. I like how the author makes the names of the characters sound weird, like Olive C. Spense and Seamore Hope. the names are cool because the describe the characters. I would recommend this book.

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  8. zpz
    5c Cental

    I liked this book because I liked the scary piano music.

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  9. Julia. b
    5c central
    I really liked the book Dying To Meet You because
    it was fiction and it is funny. The author wasso good by going beyond the imagination. It was
    amazing with the illustrations and stuff. I really loved it <3 :)!!!!

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  10. KF 5C central I like this book because when Olive cut the chandelers and scared Mr. Gumply I laughed so hard I fainted.

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  11. Riley S.
    4G Central

    I really loved this book!! It is funny because Ignatius B. Grumply doesn't believe in Olive until the end of the story.

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  12. Macey c.
    4G central
    I love this book.I love this book because Ignatius B. Grumply doesn't believe in Olive.Olive is a ghost.Before she died she was an auther.

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  13. REF
    5C Central
    I liked this book because it's funny and the rules that Mr.Grumply gives to Seymour about the house.

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  14. madison m.
    5/c lincoln central

    This book is amazing!!! It's full of mystery, fun, and it's interesting! I love this book. I definitely recommend Dying To Meet You!!!

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  15. Julia M.
    5G Lincoln Central

    I liked the book Dying to meet you because it was cool in away with all those different letters! Olive was one of my favorite character's because I loved her fun great personality! I liked this book a lot because of it's fun story!!! :)

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  16. MF
    4G Central
    I liked this book a lot.The author was smart with the character's names,like I.B. Grumply and Olive C. Spence.I like how it is told in letters and newspapers.

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  17. DD 4G Central
    This book was good.I liked it because it was about ghosts.The old man was grumpy.

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  18. HH
    4g central
    I liked this book because.I loved the puzzles and i liked that it was about ghosts.

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  19. Jayda F. (Feb. 7th, 2011)
    4H Lonsdale school

    Dying to Meet You was an interesting book. It was about an auther named I. B. Grumply and he is writing his 13th book he hasn't wrote a ghost tamer book(a ghost tamer book) in 20 years. So he rents a house called the victorian Lady on 43 Old Cemetery Road and I.B. Grumply finds a boy named Seymour Hope and a ghost named Olive C. Spence. He must take care of Seymour Hope and he doesn't enjoy it much

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  20. CA
    3M Central
    I loved it! Because Iggy thought Olive was a myth or not realm or not R.I.P.. Also that Semyour was telling the truth and Iggy or Ignatius didn't believe Semyour. Guess what Anita Sale let Iggy rent the house for the summer to write his book. Paige Turner ( Iggy's publisher) Is mad becuseIggy'S book was already due. Gadds is Iggy's lawyer and pays for everything dollar by dollar and cent by cent! Paige Turner hired Frank N. Beans a pirvate investagator and spying on Iggy, Semyour and (Olive)

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  21. Jason S.
    Raymond C. LaPerche Elementry School
    Smithfield RI
    Every one has writers block but for Ignatous B. Grumply the auther of the fameous "Ghost Tamer" series it turn into a ghost story with Olive C. Spence, who was also a writer. Seymour Hope is the child of the owners and he has a cat named Shadow. They both live at Spence Mansion. Ignatious rents Spence Mansion so he can write in quite, but yet does he know Spence Mansion is haunted by Olive C. Spence

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