Books for Kids: Ghostlight impossible to ignore, right from opening line

Toronto’s award-winning author Kenneth Oppel, with 25 books to his name and a sizable following, long ago established himself as a great storyteller — one especially good at creating an opening sentence designed to hook the reader. In fact, the publisher of his most recent novel, Ghostlight, chose to feature its opening line on the back cover, where it certainly got my attention: “Rebecca Strand was sixteen the first time she saw her father kill a ghost.” Read More