Pet Friendly by Sue Pethick is an entertaining book about Todd Dwyer, a millionaire app designer and Archie, a dog who Todd adopts after his Uncle Bertie passes away. Just when Todd seems to have everything perfect in his life, a billion dollar business sale and the impending proposal to the girl he believes will make him the happiest man alive, Todd’s life is thrown into chaos with a little help from the mischievous pet. The story begins at the funeral of Todd’s uncle, a retired circus clown named Uncle Bertie and Archie’s original owner. Brief tension unfolds between Todd and his sister Claire when they learn that Fran, their mother, has decided to give the talented Archie to Todd. Claire, convinced that Todd’s live-in girlfriend and future …show more content…
The inn widely regarded as haunted and listed on the NRHP – National Registry of Haunted Places just happens to be hosting several ghost hunters from the SSSPA - Society for the Scientific Study of Paranormal Activity. Concurrent with Todd’s visit, several ghostly incidents occur including a missing sandwich, strange howling, ominous scratching in the walls, and blood-curdling screams from the housekeeper who claims to have seen a ghost in the laundry room. The ghost hunters request a séance in the Spirit Room to investigate the occurrences. Emma reluctantly agrees as she and Todd believe Archie may be the ghost that has peaked so much interest. Additionally, she is concerned due to the fact that the room is located directly under a damaged portion of roof. Just as it seems a connection has been made with a spirit, the roof collapses and in falls Archie, Clifton Fairholm, and a copious amount of missing food. Emma discovers that Clifton has been hiding supplies and embezzling money from the business for years. The injuries are minor except for Todd who is trapped under a beam. He is rescued and it becomes evident to Gwen that Todd and Emma are still in love. Todd is taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries while Gwen seeks revenge by taking Archie to the humane society demanding the vicious dog be destroyed immediately. Todd learns of Gwen’s treachery and, with just seconds to spare, rescues
This book is called Duke. Its genre is Historical-Fiction. The story takes place during WWII. It is about a kid named Hobie who is always with his dog Duke. When he hears that the Army needs dogs for the war he realizes that he should be brave like his father, who is in the army, and lend Duke to the Dogs for Defense program. Hobie then regretted sending Duke after he realized that Duke could be in danger, get hurt or die. So he tries different methods to get Duke back such as send a letter saying that Duke always chases squirrels and that they should send him back because of that weakness. To find out whether Hobie gets his dog back or
In 2007, the inn celebrated its 100th year. Along with an inn that hasn 't changed much in over 100 years, there are cabins where guests have frequently heard things that can 't be explained. There 's been the faint sound of girls laughing where there were no little girls. There 's a female apparition said to be roaming the halls of the inn. One person reported that he saw a friend scratched by a spirit too.
Investigators soon learned that Todd was not a very good husband to his wife. It was known by their neighbors that Todd beat Stacy on a regular basis. Some
In chapter 38, Viola reads a letter to Todd written by his mother before she died. Even though Todd’s mom was already dead, I think Viola gave his mom a voice again by reading the letter. As Todd listened, he said he felt as if his whole world transformed into one made up of his mother. This letter taught both Todd and Viola a lot about each other as well as the history of New World (the planet they live on). Back when Todd’s mother was still alive, she wrote about disagreeing with Aaron’s ideas and preaches, implying that he was an extremist from the beginning and that he might have been trying to take power over New World. She wrote, “We’ve been lucky to have him, tho I must admit of late he’s not been saying things I exactly agree with
After describing her experiences with previous owners of the plantation, she learned that the ghost she had an encounter with often appears in bedrooms to check on those sleeping. She checks to see that residents are sleeping cozy and sound. Female tourists of the plantation report missing one earring after leaving the plantation. Tour guides write it off as Chloe taking one of their earrings because she loved them and had only one ear (Whitington).
Room 217: One of the places Halloran warned Danny not to enter. Inside, a murder has left a ghost of an old woman inside the bathtub. She is able to attack physically, harming Danny and scaring others.
Faye. This compulsion eventually leaves Todd with feelings of failure and breaks him down. Faye
This book report is over Haunted Houses by Patricia D. Netzley. The book is part of a series called The Mystery Library. The main goal of the series is to examine strange and often unbelieveable or unexplainable events. The author’s writes this series and her other books for the age range of kids to young adults. This book in particular goes into depth about the history of haunted house and everything surrounding them like sightings, ghosts, poltergeist, speaking to spirits, and investigation.
The grounds around the manor and the tower are also areas where these ghosts show up, or are mentioned areas, such as the lake where the Governess sees her reflection, which turns out to be the ghosts of Quint and Jessel. This isolated lake also helps lead to the alone, isolated idea that the Governess is going insane in her own mind and how this estate is strangled off from most of society. The many windowless rooms in the story also tie into the isolated, claustrophobic theme of the story. The last setting that is described is the tower. The Governess uses this large, archaic structure to watch over the manor for these ghosts.
Day after day, we would pass the mansion building on our way to and from school. Branches of vines and clusters of moss crawled up the sides of the building. I could see the paint, tearing off the walls. People for years have said the mansion building is haunted, but I don’t believe it. They say people have been possessed and killed there. Olivia, of course, believes every detail anyone tells him. To teach him a lesson, we decided to plan to spend the night in the mansion building this Saturday.
Walking into my final class of the day, I noticed that a fellow student is with a dog. As I got closer to the couple, the urge to pet the animal washed over me. My hands began to itch to feel the fur on my skin and to find the extraordinary spot behind the ear that all dogs love. However, a red vest caught my eyes with the words “SERVICE DOG” and “DO NOT PET” that yelled at me to not go through with my actions. Reluctantly obeying the warnings, I sat down next to the pair with an unaccomplished mission that was put before me. Trying to ignore the desire to pet the dog, another student asked if they could pet the dog. I heard the owner respond with, “I’m sorry. He’s still in training.” After hearing this, I realized that we forget that these dogs are on the job to help out their owners with their medical or mental disabilities and we, the outsiders, only see these dogs for our amusement. By defining what is considered a service animal, what the policies are for college campuses, what these animals are trained specifically for a certain numbers of tasks and we, as students, must respect their job and their owners. However, there are those that abuse the power of the loose definition of a service animal.
While Edgar’s comment sounded sympathetic, and was certainly hollow, there was a reason he made the remark. From the sign out front, The Hallowed Inn had a black background with red letters sprayed across. Atop the front building nested an iron-clad balcony with thin rails attached on each side. Along with two vertical sliding windows above, Dyanna had the creepy feeling that the building was alive, looking down upon any visitor with disdain.
This makes him a man because when people mature they are able to commit to something and not give up on it even if things get hard. In chapter nine of the book Todd thinks to himself, “At first I don’t think she’s gonna come. There’s no reason for her to, not reason for me to ask her, but when I say to her, “Come on,”a second time more urgently and gesture with my hand, she follows me.” This is after fighting off Aaron one of the antagonist of the story and there’s people after him. Even though he didn’t know why he was determined to have her come with him, he knew if he left her she would get hurt.
At the time, to own or stay at a haunted house is considered to be the height of fashion. There is something romantic about a haunted house as that means something forbidden went on in the house before a great tragedy. However, the colonial house they have been able to lease, while not haunted, is “queer;” or why else would they have been able to lease the house so cheaply.
One day their food supply was running low so Mylo and his little sister, Bonnie offered to go catch some rabbits for their dinner that night. They decided that they would go on the trails that were less inhabited by other predators which would give them a better chance of catching and killing multiple rabbits and other small animals to feed their family. While on their adventure through the forest they come across a larger scary cabin that has broken windows all around its frame, and the cabin has ginormous thorn bushes growing all around the outside of the cabin giving it a haunted look. Since coming across such a mysterious and odd looking place in the forest confused but also fascinated Mylo, he convinced his sister who was terrified of such an awful looking place to inspect the seemingly vacated cabin with him. The only way that Mylo was able to convince Bonnie to join the investigation of the cabin was to make it into a game of “find the ghost” Of course Bonnie is never going to turn down a chance to play a game with her favorite older brother, her hero. While Bonnie is looking for the “ghost” Mylo is inspecting the property and its surrounding area in order to see of anyone lives there or if it really is just an empty haunted cabin. Right behind the cabin, lays a small shed with copious animal pelts, including multiple fox pelts. There is an overwhelming stench of death and decay coming from inside of the small shed, but before Mylo has a chance to look any farther he hears multiple loud bangs in the distance. Not thinking much about the loud bangs in the distance but rather the looks of disappointment in the eyes of his parents if they don’t bring home any food. He quickly calls Bonnie over to where he was, so they can get away from the cabin and continue on their way to the trail where their food lay waiting to be