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Picture Book · Ages 3–6 · 2020 · Est. 7 min read-aloud
She Wanted to Be Haunted
Written by Marcus Ewert · Illustrated by Susie Ghahremani
A cheerful cottage longs to be haunted to escape her ordinary life.
40 pages· 820 words· Est. 7 min read-aloud· ~500L
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Bookroo's summary
Clarissa, a bright pink cottage with winking windows, dreams of being haunted. Tired of her cute exterior, she envies her father's eerie castle and her mother's witchy hut. What will it take for Clarissa to transform from adorable to horrible? Can she find her true self in the process, or will she discover that being haunted isn't all it's cracked up to be? Dive into this whimsical tale to find out if Clarissa's wish comes true and what it truly means to be your best self.
From the publisher
With whimsical, rhyming stanzas, She Wanted to be Haunted offers a delightful, lyrical twist on the ever-important question of how to be your very best self.
Clarissa the cottage is adorable . . . bright pink, with windows that wink, and flowers growing all around. But Clarissa doesn’t want to be adorable–being cute is boring.
Couldn’t she be like her father, a creepy castle home to vampires and crypts? Or like her mother, a witch’s hut full of spells and smells? If only she were haunted! Then she’d be less ordinary . . . What will it take for Clarissa to go from adorable to horrible?
At a glance
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 40
- Words
- 820
- Reading age
- 3–6
- Audience
- Picture
- Lexile
- ~500L
What readers & critics say
Reviews
4.3
out of 7
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The fine print
Book details
Reading levels
- ATOS
- ~3.3
- F&P level
- ~N
Publication
- Published
- July 7, 2020
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Children's Books
Edition
- Language
- English
- Type
- Picture Book
Identifiers
- ISBN
- 9781681197913
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