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StGermain
Since: Apr, 2011
10th Jul, 2011 03:58:19 AM
Okay, after an hour of hard-core searching, I think I've finally found it. It's called Ghosts Beneath Our Feet by Betty Ren Wright.
I'm leaving the query up here, in case anyone else comes looking for this book.
There was a YA (probably) book I read in the mid-90s or so. The main character was a girl (pre-teen or teen), who moved from Milwaukee (random specific detail, eh?) with her mom and brother, to some small town.
They lived in an older house that would creak because it was settling. Somewhere nearby there was an abandoned mine that either she was trying to convince her brother was haunted, or vise versa.
I seem to recall that one of them had planted this tape recording of ghostly cries in the mine to try to scare the other.
At the end of the book, the ground was so unstable (due to the mine?) that the house settled all a-whack, breaking the gas line, which caused the house to catch on fire.
I'm not sure when it was written or who wrote it, but I might recognize the title or the cover if I saw it.