{"product_id":"the-ghost-in-apartment-2r-isbn-9780525645740","title":"The Ghost in Apartment 2R","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if there was a ghost in your brother's room? This kid-friendly mystery about three friends who try to help a restless spirit find peace is perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Egg \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book Scavenger\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt stinks. Danny's older brother has moved out and gone to college--and Danny doesn't even get his nice big room. But you know what's worse? It seems that he's left behind an angry ghost!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the help of his friends Nat and Gus, Danny interviews everyone his Brooklyn neighborhood to find out about spirits. Is it an Arabian ghoul? A Korean gwishin? A Polish haunting? Maybe the answer lies with Danny's own bubbe and her tales of a dybbuk, a Jewish spirit. In the end, one thing is certain: a good night's rest is hard to get when a ghost is around.\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e[An]\u003cb\u003e affectionate tribute \u003c\/b\u003eto a richly diverse, close-knit Brooklyn neighborhood and its multigenerational residents.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“ \u003cb\u003eA layered chille\u003c\/b\u003er that is also a valentine to the story’s setting.\" \u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A diverse, interesting cast . . . \u003cb\u003ehair-raising ghost stories \u003c\/b\u003e. . . to appeal to fans of \u003cb\u003ecomic spookiness\u003c\/b\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eCLICK HERE TO START\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA School Library Guild selection \u003cbr\u003eAn Amazon Best Books of the Month Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this \u003cb\u003eclever\u003c\/b\u003e debut, Markell takes readers on a clue-filled adventure...[and] maintains an \u003cb\u003eenergetic, entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e balance of character-driven narrative and tricky challenges.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eHighly entertaining...a well-paced read \u003c\/b\u003ewith fully realized and likable characters...[and] should have strong appeal to gamers, fans of video game-based stories, and reluctant readers.\" —\u003ci\u003eSLJ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book \u003cb\u003ewill appeal to a wide audience\u003c\/b\u003e. Readers who enjoyed Schreiber's \u003ci\u003eGame Over, Pete Watson\u003c\/i\u003e will enjoy the video game component; fans of Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eUnder the Egg \u003c\/i\u003ewill enjoy reading more about the Monuments Men; detective story aficionados will revel in the inclusion of The Maltese Falcon story. This is \u003cb\u003ea great book to hand to just about any middle grade reader\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —YA Books Central \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR THE \u003ci\u003eGAME MASTERS OF GARDEN PLACE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"So \u003cb\u003einventive\u003c\/b\u003e, and so much \u003cb\u003efun\u003c\/b\u003e!\" —Wendy Mass, \u003ci\u003eNYT\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Candymakers series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A love letter to a legendary game.\" —Michael Northrop, \u003ci\u003eNYT\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of TombQuest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An epic adventure...\u003cb\u003efor young fans of \u003ci\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eSLJ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An \u003cb\u003eexciting\u003c\/b\u003e new adventure exploring friendship...[with] often \u003cb\u003ehumorous\u003c\/b\u003e commentary on social issues. —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Both \u003cb\u003efunny and heartfelt\u003c\/b\u003e...[it's] a story that \u003cb\u003ehas as much to offer diehard fans as it does newcomers\u003c\/b\u003e to fantasy role-playing.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003eDenis Markell has written two other novels for kids--the puzzle-packed mystery \u003ci\u003eClick Here to Start\u003c\/i\u003e and the Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons-inspired adventure \u003ci\u003eThe Game Masters of Garden Place\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in a small, definitely not haunted apartment in Brooklyn with his wife, illustrator Melissa Iwai; his son; and their possibly demonically possessed Shiba Inu, Nikki.The Great Injustice That Is Happening to Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkay, in the Grand Scheme of Things, as my favorite history teacher, Mr. Nordstrom, likes to say, maybe it’s not a great injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr as my dad likes to remind me, “Do you know how many kids would kill to be in your situation?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause this is really just about a closet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich wouldn’t be such a big deal, except it’s where I sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, yes, there are kids much worse off than I am, and I totally get that. But for a normal thirteen-year-old kid living in Brooklyn, what happened to me is, I think anyone would agree, a pretty big miscarriage of justice. Not like being enslaved, or made to feel like a second-class citizen or anything . . . Well, that’s not true. I do feel like a second-class citizen. At least in my family nest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in what is referred to as a two-bedroom apartment, since there are two bedrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich seems like a stupid detail but is actually a major part of this story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause I have an older brother and a set of parents (one of each sex--I only mention this because my friend Kyle has two moms and I want to be fair), that means two bedrooms for four people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in a typical family, I would share the bedroom with Jake (that’s my brother’s name), but since we’re six years apart, it was decided when I was a whining little kid that me being in there would be a distraction from Jake studying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then he was a teenager, and then it was really important that he have his own room because, well, “You’ll understand when you’re older.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, I am older now, and a brand-new teenager myself, and nobody is saying I need to have my own room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkay, I do have a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKind of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce I was too old to stay in my parents’ room, they took the closet near the front door and turned it into a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI mean, it’s a nice closet, as closets go, with a sliding door and shelves and room for a small futon. So that’s my room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd please do not make any Harry Potter jokes, because I’ve heard them all. I remember when I was in like first grade and friends would come over and think it was neat, because they would have normal rooms and mine was so different. Or they had normal families and shared a room with a sibling. “You’re so lucky!” they would say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeah, lucky me. Sleeping in a closet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou might think that this is the injustice I’m talking about, but honestly, I didn’t mind it, because of a promise my father and mother made to me when I got big enough to start complaining about the situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe promise was that I would get Jake’s room right after he went to college. Which seemed totally fair. And Jake was cool with it, too. 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