Suppose you were looking at a painting and something inside the picture moved! What would you do? Olive and her parents just moved into this old Victorian mansion where all the rooms still have the contents of the previous owners. As Olive goes exploring she notices that the paintings are stuck to the wall and they don't budge. Weird glasses enable her to enter into the paintings. And the talking cats aren't much help either or are they? For a mysteriously scary (not too), sometimes creepy adventure, start
The Books of Elsewhere series by Jacqueline West. If you look at the photo above, you will see this book in Katie's hands. Ask her what she thought about
The Shadows.
I enjoyed listening to this rootin' tootin' short fun novel written by Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor*. Set in the olden days of the wild west, orphaned Emily wants to go live with her aunt but an evil uncle is after her inheritance. Yikes! What will Emily do? What will her helpful neighbors, Mrs. Ready, Mrs. Aim and Mrs. Fire advise? The Catchum Child Catching Services and a fellow traveler, a very clever orphan add to the suspense of this comical adventure. 
