The Ghostly Photos by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Author:Margaret Peterson Haddix
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-07-04T00:00:00+00:00
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The Ghost Boys
âTwins?â Nevaeh repeated. âHow could that be? What made you think that?â
âI read about it at the library,â Colin said. âIn a book called Groveview during the Great Depression.â
Nevaeh didnât react right. Her face lit up. She playfully slugged his arm.
âLook at you, walking into the library and right away solving more of our mystery,â she said. âYou are the best at research!â
This made Colin feel a little bit better. Enough, anyway, that he could explain why it made him cry.
âNoâthis isnât good news,â he said. âItâs awful. Things just keep getting worse and worse. It wasnât just one boy who died falling off a train back in 1930. It was two. Thatâs twice as bad. These two twin brothers ran away from home together, I guess, and so there was a family somewhere out there missing two boys and not knowing what happened. And then they died together, but the one boyâs body was found before the otherâs. And then . . . well, I donât actually know what happened next. Because it just seemed so sad to me. It was too much. So I dropped the book and I ran away, and . . . I donât know. My dad dying, those boys dying . . . itâs too much death.â
Nevaeh patted his knee. And that helped, too.
âWe can stop,â she said. âWe donât have to do anything else about the ghost boy. Erâghost boys.â
Colin let himself peer straight into Nevaehâs eyes. They were so familiar, though a little more rounded and worried than usual.
âBut you donât want to stop working on the ghost boy mystery,â he protested. âYou want to solve this. You wouldnât be Nevaeh Greevey if you just walked away from a mystery.â
âExcept, I do kind of want to stop,â Nevaeh said. She lowered her head and stared down at her empty hands for a moment. Then she looked back up at Colin, her eyes fierce now. âMaybe Iâm not the same as I used to be? Standing in the funeral home attic yesterdayâbeing at the funeral home at allâthat kind of thing never would have bothered me before. But yesterday . . . I donât know. It was so weird. I didnât feel like myself. I couldnât remember how to act like myself. It scared me so much, I had to run away.â
âYou ran away yesterday, I ran away today . . . ,â Colin muttered.
Strangely, it made him feel better to hear that Nevaeh wasnât always perfectly brave, either.
Nevaeh snorted.
âYou had a better reason,â she said. âYour father died. Even if you donât remember him . . . now he canât ever be part of your future, either. Itâs like . . . didnât you think we were going to find out good things with Reeâs mystery, too? Not that two boys died?â
âYeah,â Colin said. âYeah.â It helped that Nevaeh understood. Even if he didnât understand himself. Even if she didnât understand herself.
Even if they were both changing.
He plucked at a
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