Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road)
by Kate Klise
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Author: Kate KliseIllustrator: M. Sarah Klise
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-06
ISBN: 0152057277
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Book Reviews of Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road)
Book Review: Reviewed by Sylvia Rodriguez' Fifth Grade Class Phoebe Hearst Elementary and Garbrielle Keane Fifth Grader Art Freiler School
Summary: 5 Stars
The book Dying to Meet You: 43 Old Cemetery Road is an interesting thriller filled with surprises and humor. It was famous author Ignatius B. Grumply's first day in the town of Ghastly. He was looking for a new house to rent for the summer, so he started talking to a woman named Anita Sale from Proper Properties to help him find a home. He was looking for a quiet house with no kids around, to write his newest Ghost Tamer book, but he was surprised when he overlooked the contract and ended up with a home that included a boy named Seymour and his cat. The two lived on the third floor with their ghost friend, Olive C. Spence.
When Seymour's parents, Les and Diane Hope, can't find anyone to buy their haunted mansion, they plan to demolish it and sell it as an empty lot, but Seymour doesn't want this to happen so he struggles to make the money. Read 43 Old Cemetery Road Is Dying To Meet You to see if Seymour can reach his goal!
Kate Klise is a fictional author that starts pulling you in at the beginning. Her choice of words and unexpected happenings make any reader curious. I would've liked the book to be in chapter form, instead of letters because it got confusing. It was kind of hard to keep up with all the letters switching between people. At the same time, I still think the letters and notes were a creative way to show what was happening.
The illustrations are detailed and help explain some parts of the story. Many of the illustrations are supposed to be drawn by characters in the book, and M. Sarah Klise did a good job of making it look like a kid's sketches.
It's a fictional read I would recommend for kids between 8 and 11 years of age. The mysterious book leads you to witnessing many hilarious incidents, with happy and sad endings. To find out how it all ends, read the book 43 Old Cemetery Road, because it's dying to meet you.
Reviewed by Sylvia Rodriguez'
Fifth Grade Class
Phoebe Hearst Elementary, Sacramento
43 Old Cemetery Road Dying To Meet You, is a fictional book about an old writer named Mr. Grumply, who is writing his thirteenth book and needs a place to live. So he rented a house and finds out that here is an 11-year-old boy and a ghost! The 11-year-old cat, named Shadow, was as black as the sky at midnight. The boy's name was Seymour Hope. He had parents, but left him and went to Europe, because they thought that he was going crazy about a ghost living in their house. Seymour could see the ghost, whose name was Olive. She cooked for the boy and did everything a mother would do. She was also a writer.
When Mr. Grumply moved into the house, he saw Seymour and his cat, Shadow. Mr. Grumply was allergic to cats. So he called his agent and complained about the cat and the child. All she said was "I warned you, and there is not a thing I can do." He was VERY mad, so he went up stairs and stared typing his book. STOMP, STOMP, STOMP!!!! Mr.Grumply yelled at Seymour, but it was not him!! He said to Mr. Grumply, "That was not me it was Olive!"
You'll have to read this book to find out if Mr. Grumply's book gets published.
The book, I'm Dying To Meet You is a very interesting and entraining, because it's about a 11-year-old boy who doesn't want an old man living with him, so he hates him as much as the old man doesn't like him. It's very funny seeing a young kid and an old man fight. The one thing that this book leaves out is if Seymour's parents come back. Similar to Because of Winn-Dixie, we wonder if Winn Dixie will ever run away again. This book also affected me a little. At first, I thought that this book was going to be a boring book, but I was wrong! It was so funny I was about to pee my pants!
Reviewed by Garbrielle Keane
Fifth Grader
Mrs. DeCoite's Class
Art Freiler School, Tracy
Summary of Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road)
Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour, his cat Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive. It's hard to say who is more outraged. But a grumpy old ghost just might inspire this grumpy old man--and the abandoned kid? Well, let's just say his last name's Hope.
Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, the creators of the award-winning Regarding the . . . series, offer up this debut volume in a clever new series told in letters, drawings, newspaper articles, a work-in-progress manuscript, and even an occasional tombstone engraving.
Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, the creators of the award-winning Regarding the . . . series, offer up this debut volume in a clever new series told in letters, drawings, newspaper articles, a work-in-progress manuscript, and even an occasional tombstone engraving.
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