His luck took a turn for the worse when the publisher of his first book went bankrupt. Unfortunately, no one wanted to publish them. In the excitement of publishing a novel, Mr. Bulla wrote a novel and a publisher accepted it. Bulla sold a magazine story, then several more. After years of gathering editor's rejection slips, Mr. Bulla continued to write stories mostly, but plays and poetry, too. Bulla's first piece of writing was titled, “How Planets Were Born.” The ambitious opening sentence was, “One night old Mother Moon had a million babies.” All through school, Mr. Bulla, “is a desk or other flat surface on which to write my stories!” His classmates laughed heartily, and his teacher was puzzled. Young Clyde answered that he would buy a table. One day his teacher asked each first grade student what he or she would do with a thousand dollars. Bulla's first school was a one-room country schoolhouse.
Born on a farm in a small town in Missouri, Mr. Boy do I miss being entertained like that!” A paperback edition was republished in 1990 by Scholastic, Inc., but, alas, neither version is currently available new.Almost as far back as he can remember, Clyde Robert Bulla wanted to write. Back in 1980 I can remember being enthused while biting my nails. I read this book in third grade and I think it was awesome.” The other said, “A scary book for more innocent times. The fact is that I had trouble putting it down! There were two reviews at Barnes and Noble. What I liked most about it was that even though many books for young readers are rather silly, and there is nothing necessarily wrong with that, this one is a serious story yet written for young readers in a way for them to understand and enjoy. In this book, while some people apparently believe in ghosts (the Carvers definitely do not), there are no actual ghosts.
Some people do not like books that contain any mention of ghosts. Jamie and Lorna help solve the mystery and make some new friends in the process. The aim is either getting rid of the ghost or finding out that there is no ghost. Giddings thinks that there is a ghost there. Giddings to live in his newly purchased country estate for a month because Mrs. Set in Massachusetts in 1851, it tells of Jamie and Lorna Carver, whose father is hired by the wealthy Mr. Therefore, when I saw The Ghost of Windy Hill at a used curriculum sale, I picked it up. Several years ago, around 2003, I read his The Sword in the Tree out loud to the boys, and we thought that it was good. Clyde Robert Bulla is a well known and prolific author. Crowell, New York City, NY, which is now apparently owned by HarperCollins Children’s Books republished by Weekly Reader Children’s Book Club, Intermediate Division). The Ghost of Windy Hill (published in 1968 by Thomas Y.
Language level: 1 (nothing objectionable)įor more information e-mail Clyde Robert. Publisher: Scholastic Inc., republished in 1990
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