The Seer of Shadows by Avi (202 pages)
In the early 1870s, just after the Civil War, young Horace has become a photographer’s apprentice. He is anxious to take his first photographs, but his employer, Mr. Middleditch, does not give him any assignments. A wealthy woman comes into the photography shop requesting a portrait to be taken in her home. She says she is grieving for her daughter Eleanora and would like a portrait to be placed at her daughter’s tomb. Mr. Middleditch, a greedy man, concocts a scheme to superimpose a ghostly image of Eleanora into the woman’s photograph in order to make a name for himself in spirit photography, but Horace is warned by Pegg, the servant girl, that Eleanora was the not the woman’s daughter and she did not die of natural causes. Horace soon encounters Eleanora’s spirit and she is angry and vengeful. Can Horace stop the ghost before she hurts the ones who hurt her?
Miss Simer’s Rating: ***
Posted by in 02:04:54
This book sounds really good!