Two ten-year-olds on a class trip to the Erie Canal find themselves transported back in time to the canal of 1829. Dragged aboard a canal boat, the boy and girl experience adventures getting through each day by blending into its tempo and chores while trying to find a way back to the present. ** 
The author imparts an enormous amount of detail about the canal through the story-line, and his colorful characterization brings the story to life boldly. 
This novel is at once entertaining and exciting enough to hold youngsters interests and detailed enough to be of use to teachers trying to teach the history of the canal or of the period. **

The Eerie Canal

Children's Books

Reber, Jack

Literature & Fiction

Trillium Pr

Fifth grader Marsh Mayo has secretly taken his pet white mouse to school. It has escaped through a hole in his pocket. Fortunately, there is an early dismissal, and March is able to walk the short distance from his home back to school and with the permission of the janitor get into his classroom to look for "something he left behind." While March is in the process of catching his mouse, a sudden chill and a smoky odor fill the room—a ghost is present! March is thrilled that the rumor of Stockade Elementary School being haunted is true. He has always been interested in ghosts, and it doesn't take him long to figure out "who," "what," "when," and "why" of this one.Unceremoniously he touches a part of the ghost's aura, and is transported by the ghost, inadvertently, into its time and dimension. The ghost is the minister of Schenectady, Dominie Perrtus Tesschenmaeker, who cannot rest until he finds his Liturgy and conducts the Service for the Dead, his massacred congregation. The

The Ghost from the Schenectady Massacre: A Haunting from the Dutch Settlers

Royal Fireworks Pr

Trillium Press

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