Elaine Marie Alphin

Author of Ghost Cadet

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About the Author

Elain Marie Alphin was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California. She attended Rice University and upon graduation she received a Watson Research Fellowship, a grant given to graduating college seniors to fund independent study and travel outside the United States. She spent the next year in show more England, doing research for a novel she was writing about Richard III and his murder of his nephews. She turned her research into a novel for middle-grade readers entitled, Tournament of Time. Her other novels includeded Ghost Cadet, Picture Perfect, The Perfect Shot, and Simon Says. She won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery and was named a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers for the novel Counterfeit Son. She died on August 19, 2014 at age 58. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Elaine Marie Alphin

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Ghost Cadet (1991) 289 copies, 6 reviews

Counterfeit Son (2000) 227 copies, 9 reviews

Ghost Soldier (2001) 171 copies, 4 reviews

The Perfect Shot (2005) 146 copies, 6 reviews

Dinosaur Hunter (I Can Read Level 4) (2003) 137 copies, 1 review

A Bear for Miguel (1996) 115 copies, 2 reviews

Germ Hunter: A Story about Louis Pasteur (2003) 107 copies, 1 review

Davy Crockett (History maker bios) (2002) 77 copies, 1 review

Simon Says (2002) 74 copies, 2 reviews

Picture Perfect (2003) 67 copies, 5 reviews

An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank (2010) 62 copies, 8 reviews

I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight: A Story About John Paul Jones (Creative Minds Biography) (2004) 31 copies

Creating Characters Kids Will Love (2000) 23 copies

Tournament of Time (1994) 10 copies, 1 review

Toasters (Household History) (1998) 10 copies

The Proving Ground (1992) 9 copies, 1 review

Irons (Household History) (1998) 7 copies

Vacuum Cleaners (Household History Series) (1997) 7 copies

Telephones (2001) 2 copies

Time Travel Trap (2009) 1 copy, 1 review

JELP (2008) 1 copy, 1 review

Making the Leaves Talk (2008) 1 copy, 1 review

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Birthdate: 1955-10-30
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Bozeman, Montana, USA

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Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin

Benjy Stark isn't at all happy about spending his spring vacation with his grandmother in Virginia. She probably won't like him; no one else seems to. So the last thing Benjy expects to do is make a friend--especially one who's a ghost!
Cadet William Hugh McDowell was killed at the Civil War battle of New Market more than one hundred years ago. He's doomed to haunt the battlefield until he finds his grandfather's gold watch--the watch he'd hidden from the Yankees just before he died.
If Hugh's spirit is ever to rest in peace, Benjy must help him find the watch and get it back to its rightful place in history. Benjy is scared. After all, no one has ever depended on him for anything. Now Benjy's new best friend is betting all eternity that he will succeed.… (more)

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