The Ghosts of Mercy Manor

I read this when I was a teenager and have never forgotten this book.

Gwen's Great Aunt Mary has just died and she has no mother or father because they died in a car crash five years before. She is now a foster child and her brother and his wife want nothing to do with her so they send her to the Mercy family. She is surprised to find she is very comfortable around them, especially Tessie. A girl frightens her when she first arrives because she is sitting at Tessie's window looking down at them, and Dena, her foster mom, said nothing about another girl in the family. Dena said the only family members were her, Tessie, Jason, and Mr. Mercy. She turns around and notices that Tessie has seen the girl too. It turns out this girl, Rose, is a ghost and is linked to a horrible summer that involved a murder where Dena spent that summer when she was a little girl. Rose won't leave her alone, and she is horrified to know that two other desperate men haunt the house. Mr. Mercy says that she will have to leave if she does not stop talking about these ghosts because it is upsetting Dena and the rest of the family. She decides she will not talk about Rose and the two men anymore, but she will not give up on trying to figure out what Rose wants, and she will not stop prying into Dena's past until she figures out the truth about what happened that horrible summer.

"The Ghost of Mercy Manor"will leave you in suspence.You won't want to put this book down.Once you've finsh it you will wish you where still reading it.I've read 10 other books by this author and this is one of the best.

The week (or days I read it) I read it was raining outside and I was looking for a good book to read for the weekend. Because it was Thursday. I said to a friend I was looking for a good ghost story. and how she was right. I hope Betty rights more of the best childrens ghost stories.

I loved this book because you never knew what was going to happen next. Betty Ren Wright always did the unexpected. Read it! You will not regret it.

The Ghosts of Mercey Manor was a wounderful book. I love to read about ghost stories. They are so exciting I can never put them down. The story was about a girl named Gwen who just moved into a new house with her foster parents. She kept seeing this ghost girl with long golden hair, and she was scared to go to sleep because she thought that it would come out and haunt her. Nobody in her family believed her and everybody thought she was insane, except one night her foster brother Jason saw the ghost girl and then Gwen and Jason convinced their parents that there was a ghost girl. Gwen finally got over being scared, and nobody thought she was insane anymore. The only part that I didn't like about the book was that it ended really quickly.