The Ghost-Maker Summary
Kathleen Kilgore

Everything you need to understand or teach The Ghost-Maker by Kathleen Kilgore.

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The Ghost-Maker Summary

The Ghost-Maker is rich in significant human themes, including growing up, the problems of children with divorced parents, truth and lying, conformity and rebellion, loyalty and betrayal.

These ideas are also developed in a tense, suspenseful narrative, focused on the teen-ager, Lee, who finds himself alone and lonely in the alien world of a community of retired senior citizens. The adjustment problems of Lee, a child of divorced parents, are set in the...

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