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Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story
Pemba's Song A Ghost Story
Author: Marilyn Nelson, Tonya C. Hegamin
ISBN-13: 9780545020763
ISBN-10: 054502076X
Publication Date: 9/1/2008
Pages: 112
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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4.3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Reviewed by Shyanne for TeensReadToo.com

Pemba is a young girl who only has her mother now. Her father passed away, and so they moved away from her friends in Brooklyn to an old colonial house in Colchester, Connecticut.

There is a very strange old man named Abraham here, and Pemba thinks he is the crazy one - but she isn't so sure about herself anymore.

Pemba and a slave girl from the 18th-century, Phyllis, become intertwined, and Phyllis visits Pemba in a supernatural way. These visits change both girls in many different ways.

I recommend PEMBA'S SONG for anyone who loves a great supernatural story. It is a new twist on the paranormal. It isnt the conventional, cookie-cutter ghost story, but one of mystery, friendship, freedom, and truth.

This is a great book to read and almost gives you a new understanding of what people have went through and the limits of true friendship.

Read it! It's a nice change in paranormal and supernatural stories!