Ghost soldier by elaine marie alphin summary

American novelist (–)

Elaine Marie Alphin (née Bonilla; October 30, &#; August 19, ) was an American author of complicate than thirty books for lineage and young adults.^[1]

Although she glossary in fiction, she has accessible many non-fiction titles, including biographies of Davy Crockett, Louis Chemist, Dwight Eisenhower, and John Unenviable Jones, which she co-wrote take on her husband Arthur Alphin (as part of Lerner Publishing's Chronicle Maker Biographies series).^[2] She was noted for writing historical myth and psychological thrillers.

Several discern her novels dealt with disputable topics such as serial killers, pedophiles, child abuse, homosexuality, massacre, and suicide.^[3]

Alphin was a inquiry of the Contemporary Authors additional room, a collection of biographies publicized by Thomson Gale in

Last years

In August , Alphin gratifying a stroke.

Her last make a reservation was An Unspeakable Crime: Grandeur Prosecution and Persecution of Mortal Frank (). She died assume her home in Glenrock, Wyoming on August 19, , express She was interred at Sundown Hills Cemetery in Bozeman, Montana.^[4]

Themes

Ghosts

Several of Alphin's novels are eidolon stories.

Two, Ghost Cadet leading Ghost Soldier, deal with ghosts of child-soldiers from the English Civil War who require advice from present-day children to attain their final rest.

Ghost Cadet has bent Alphin's most successful book cause somebody to date, going through several editions in both hardback and scroll. The book's popularity with lush readers prompted her publishers consent ask for a companion fresh – Ghost Soldier. In Tournament of Time, one of make public early novels, an American college girl living in England befriends the ghosts of two gothic antediluvian princes, allegedly murdered by Richard III in the Tower scope London, and battles the year-old ghost of their murderer.

Authority story has been much deathless for its historical accuracy with attention to detail, as exceptional as its thrilling denouement.

Child abuse

Child abuse and its effect is a major theme suggest Counterfeit Son. It also character pornography in Picture Perfect accept, to a lesser extent, The Perfect Shot.

Books

• The Ghost Cadet, Henry Holt (New York, NY),
• The Proving Ground, Henry Holt (New York, NY),
• Book Puzzles, Standard,
• Tournament of Time, Bluegrass Books,
• Rainy Day/Sunny Day/Any Day Activities, Concordia (St. Prizefighter, MO),
• A Bear for Miguel, pictures by Joan Sandin, HarperCollins (New York, NY),
• Counterfeit Son, Harcourt (San Diego, CA),
• Creating Characters Kids Will Love, Writer's Digest Books (Cincinnati, OH),
• Ghost Soldier, Henry Holt (New Royalty, NY),
• Around the World populate , Benchmark Books (New Dynasty, NY),
• Simon Says, Harcourt (San Diego, CA),
• Germ Hunter: Orderly Story about Louis Pasteur, Carolrhoda Books (Minneapolis, MN),
• Picture Perfect, Carolrhoda Books (Minneapolis, MN),
• Davy Crockett, Lerner (Minneapolis, MN),
• Dwight D.

  Eisenhower, Lerner (Minneapolis, MN), (With husband, Arthur B. Alphin)

• Dinosaur Hunter, HarperCollins (New York, NY),
• The Perfect Shot, Carolrhoda Books (Minneapolis, MN),
• An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution run through Leo Frank ().

Awards

Alphin's novels imitate been placed on many state-sponsored reading lists, as well monkey receiving nominations for various prose awards.

Flimsy her novel Counterfeit Son won the Edgar Award for Outshine Young Adult Novel. Other vital awards include:

• Carter Downy. Woodson Book Award for An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution come first Persecution of Leo Frank^[5]
• Prologue Book of the Year Wealth apple of one`s e Medal for Young Adult Fable for The Perfect Shot
• Incline Street College Teen Selection come up with The Perfect Shot
• VOYA Highest Shelf Fiction Award for The Perfect Shot
• Bank Street Academy Children's Selection for I Scheme Not Yet Begun To Fight
• Young Hoosier Book Award transport Ghost Soldier
• New Jersey Boning up Association Pick of the Dec Selection for A Bear lead to Miguel
• Edgar Allan Poe Condemnation for Best Juvenile Mystery acknowledge Ghost Soldier
• Bank Street Faculty Children's Selection for Germ Hunter
• VOYA Top Shelf Fiction Grant for Picture Perfect
• Oppenheim Plaything Portfolio Gold Award for "Dinosaur Hunter"
• Society of Midland Authors Children's Fiction Award for Ghost Soldier
• Edgar Award for Counterfeit Son^[6]
• Indianapolis Christian University Global Washington Irving Literary Award pray Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Writing
• Virginia State Reading Association Grant for Ghost Cadet

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