Olive and the Backstage Ghost

Olive Preiss has a famous mother who expects Olive to perform just as well. Her mother wants her to go to theater camp, but because of terrible nerves Olive messes up her audition. Olive is devastated and runs away. She doesn't know where she's going, but she suddenly finds herself at Maudeville, an......more

Olive Preiss is haunted in more ways than one. For one thing, she desperately misses her father who died before the book begins. For another thing, she suffers from low self-esteem due to her mother's constant belittling of her; in fact, she jokes that it isn't stage fright that plagues her but moth......more

Olive has lost her father. Her mother is critical of Olive when she's has stage fright for her audition and can't sing. She runs off the stage and goes outside. Her mother is angry at Olive. Why? Olive doesn't feel close to her mother at all since her father died. She discovers a beautiful theater o......more

OLIVE AND THE BACKSTAGE GHOST is a middle grade horror/ghost story that is full of suspense. Olive loves to sing, but usually clams up on stage thanks to her overbearing mom. With her dad dead, Olive feels like her walls are closing in. After freezing up during an audition for theater camp, she esca......more

This book was described as being "bone deep creepy." Perhaps, if you are quite young, but otherwise all I found it to be was gross. What I did not know going in is that the crux, or climax of this story revolved around and Edgar Allan Poe Poem. The elements of that poem are taken and transformed int......more