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Ghosts make different sounds in different languages. Why do you think this is so? Can you match the sounds and the languages below? Norwegian Kekeke! Japanese Boo! Spanish Bø! English Hou! French ¡Bu!
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Bobbie Pyron (1957–) is an American writer of books for young readers. She loves animals, and her favorite is the giraffe.
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The first time we saw him, my little sister thought he was a ghost. In some ways she was right, though there’s not really a word for what he was. We’d parked in the Ponce De León Travel Park outside St. Augustine, Florida. Stop five in the longest family vacation ever. My family is okay, but after two weeks, being stuck in a rented RV with my parents and little sister was getting old. Dad said we needed this vacation, especially Mom, after everything that had happened. Maybe so, but I didn’t see how driving from Maryland to Florida would make things right, the way they used to be. I sat on the picnic table watching what Dad called “swamp fog” creep from the forest on the other side of the park. I wondered what my friends were doing back home. And then thinking about home made me think about who wasn’t there anymore. My throat tightened. “Nathan, look!” Maggie said, her eyes wide. On the other side of the park, something had wandered out of the misty shadows of the forest. Maggie grabbed my hand. “It’s a ghost!” I squinted into the fog and pulled Maggie a little closer.
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Remember! You don’t have to understand all the words in a story to enjoy it.
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