On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave
Author: Candace Fleming
Desc: "Positively tailor-made for reading—or reading aloud—by flashlight " declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. The phenomenally versatile award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery an actual graveyard outside Chicago each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860's to the present and ends with the narrator's death. Some teens die heroically others ironically but all due to supernatural causes. Readers will meet walking corpses and witness demonic posession all against the backdrop of Chicago's rich history—the Great Depression the World's Fair Al Capone and his fellow gangsters.