Face to Face Books (2000)
(an imprint of Midwest Traditions)
Softcover Edition, ISBN 1-883953-27-8
176 pages, 6" x 9"
Fiction/Juvenile/Ghost Stories (ages 8-12)
$13.95
(Note: hardcover edition, 1-883953-28-6, is sold out)

"This page-turner will keep readers looking forward to the further exploits of these two ghost sleuths."
- School Library Journal

"Readers will find the suspense satisfying and the main character a sympathetic hero."
- Booklist

"Lively, entertaining, and highly recommended."
- Midwest Book Review

The Ghost of Honeymoon Creek continues the adventures of those two teenage ghost-magnets: Hank and his ’fraidy-cat sidekick Clifford. In this novel, they encounter a mysterious old lady living in a deserted house, a blustering landlord with a dark secret, a fire-breathing white bull named Lucifer, and the dastardly Leach Brothers.

Again Hank saves the day, while running a gauntlet of ghosts galore. All takes place near the mythical town of Myrtleville, somewhere in Indiana.

The Illinois Times said of the prequel, The Fresh Grave: “A host of ghosts ... I tested [the stories] on a seven-year-old and a nine-year-old. ... Both kids found the stories ‘awesome.’ ”

Parents and librarians will appreciate the positive values in the story, as young Hank debates whether or not to follow in his father’s footsteps to become a farmer, and how best to support the ghostly old lady’s quest for justice from Old Man Crupp.

Raymond Bial is an award-winning author of many books for children, including Amish Home (an ALA Notable Book) and Where Lincoln Walked (Walker & Co.). His previous book of Hank and Clifford stories, The Fresh Grave, was a collection of well-reviewed short stories. A retired librarian, Bial lives in Urbana, Illinois, where he continues to write and create documentary photographs full-time. His website can be found at http://www.raybial.com.

Blue Horse Books is an imprint of Midwest Traditions, Inc., a nonprofit publisher whose titles have won the Benjamin Franklin Award and have been short-listed for the Great Lakes Book Award, Minnesota Book Award, Independent Press Book Award, and others.