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A STRANGER ARRIVES

Geela Gribbs was known as more than a little weird.
        She looked ordinary enough to Caro Carolina, when she came to pick up the key to Pirate's Den, the tiny cottage next door. She did all the usual things. She smiled and admired the view of the ocean. Caro's mother said, like she did with all the guests, "You must be tired after your long drive." Geela admitted she was, took the key, turned to go. And then she snapped her fingers, looked downward, and said, "Come on, Fluffers."
        There was no one with Geela Gribbs, no one Caro's mother saw, no one Caro saw. Caro and her mother looked each other in the eye. Without either of them saying a word, they decided then and there that the new guest was weird.
        But it didn't matter, Caro's mother told Caro once the new guest was out of hearing range. Geela had paid in full for two weeks, and she looked harmless.
        That was mid-afternoon, Friday, June 15th, right after Caro's last day of school, two days after Cassie and Liana had said they weren’t talking to her anymore.

No shiver went up or down Caro’s spine. She didn’t have a strange feeling in her stomach. She just plain didn’t have an inkling that, in just one week, she would find herself, in the middle of the night, past the edge of town, on a deserted stretch of road, facing the ditch, needing to climb down into it, and yet afraid to, afraid of what she would find there – but even more afraid of doing wrong if she did not go. An urgent whining was coming from the ditch.
        On June 15th, that was far away.

The Fluffers Book - a preteen girl and ghost dog story

Just what is this preteen girl and ghost dog story about?
A preteenage girl - Caro Carolina, 13.

And what else is this preteen girl and ghost dog story about?
A ghost dog. This could also be called also a ghost story for kids.

And what else?
Well, it's a friendship story, a story about friendship gone bad,
and about making friends, real friends.

There's even more to this preteen girl and ghost dog story.
Caro is asking herself questions about what is real.

In this preteen girl and ghost dog story, Caro wonders a lot.
Are ghosts real? Do ghosts exist? What about ghost dogs?
If there proof? How about ghost footage?

Like so many people asking questions, in this preteen girl and ghost dog story,
Caro can't get answers that make sense to her from anyone.
One person says one thing. The next says the opposite.
Ghosts exist. They don't. God exists. You must be kidding.
The dumbest answer she gets is that all opinions are equal -
which means god exists and doesn't, ghosts exist and don't.
Caro isn't dumb enough to buy that - but that leaves her the harder job
of figuring out what is really real.

In this preteen girl and ghost dog story, these preteen stories,
Caro wishes everything was simple, the way it used to be when she was sure the tooth fairy was real
and that she could get any answer just by asking a grownup.

She doesn't just wonder. She does a lot. Especially after the ghost dog comes to her in the middle of the night.
Fluffers takes her to the edge of a ditch in the middle of nowhere ... and disappears.

This is a preteen girl and ghost story with a lot happening. Caro has friends
who have just decided they won't talk to her - and she makes a new friend. It's Doug - t
he first boy she's ever been friends with. Doug has been in her school ever since she started grade one,
but she's never noticed him - until now. Boy girl story. Preteenage girl. Preteenage boy. A friendship story.

And it's a dog story - because Fluffers, ghost dog, is above all, a dog.

The Fluffers Book -
a preteen girl and ghost dog story with lots happening -
questions, mystery, a hit and run, a ghost dog, and more.

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a preteen girl and ghost dog story for all ages, click here.

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