Just Loved Reading:

Ghosts I Have Been

Middle Grade Fiction

Peck, Richard. Ghosts I Have Been. Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1994.

Blossom Culp is a troublemaker. Understandably, no one in Bluff City wants to cross her especially when she recently revealed that she has Second Sight. This only serves to increase her isolation from the town folks but that doesn’t stop Blossom or shut her up, either.

She was bluffing…or was she? It turns out that she does have Second Sight! Blossom “sees” a car accident, a future moon landing and finds herself on the Titanic … after it sunk! While she is on the famous ship, she witnesses the drowning of a British boy and his crossing over to the Other World. But what happened to bring Julian Poindexter to his death on board the Titanic? Why wasn’t he one of the survivors?  Blossom the Ghost can find out if anyone can.

Returning home, her revelations of her adventures make her a local and national celebrity. Heck – soon she becomes known as far away as England where she travels to see herself in wax at Madam Tussaud’s and meets the Queen. Life will never be the same for Blossom Culp.

WHY I LOVED READING THIS BOOK:

Blossom Culp packs a lot into her spunky young life. Her adventures are fun to read and want the reader looking for more. Ghosts I Have Been is a fast-paced read, evocative of its era and funny (even though a boy drowning isn’t funny).

It’s a little surprising that Blossom Culp isn’t as well-known a heroine as Pinkalicious, another fictious character who marches to her own drum beat.  However, Peck has written other Blossom Culp novels: Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death and The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp so fans of Blossom Culp can continue to follow her adventures.

For More Information on the Titanic:

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https://www.thoughtco.com/little-known-facts-about-the-titanic-

www.titanicpigeonforge.com