![]() ![]() ![]() Should he stay, or will his first all-nighter turn into his last? Like the children, somehow cursed to play here forever, the trinkets return to the sand each night only to disappear again once the spotlight goes out at dawn.Īndrea sure doesn’t feel like a ghost when she knocks Gavin into the dust. You see, the treasures people have lost in the sand aren’t really lost, he discovers. The ringleader is a tough girl named Andrea, who remorselessly cajoles Gavin into staying out later than he ever planned. He says he has to get home the first time, but then finds himself returning the very next night, playing an endless game of keep away. Soon, the playground is overrun with kids his age, who invite him to play. Gavin, a kid with a habit of frequenting playgrounds after dark to sweep them with a metal detector runs into a sand lot that gives no readings. ![]() I am a big fan of Shaun Tan, holding his Tales from Outer Suburbia and Lost and Found to be some of the greatest speculative fiction since Neil Gaiman. The book is really just a short story packaged independently, with a glossary at the back and a set of questions for the teacher to use as a study guide. It is beyond the graded easy readers you see with big 2s and 3s in the corner, but it’s written in the same style. The Haunted Playground is one book in a series by Capstone Publishing designed to be used in the classroom, targeted at reading assessment. To understand this book completely, you have to take it in context. ![]()
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