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  “You’re just teasing,” said Cassie. “Ghosts aren’t real. They’re just in games and stories and stuff.”

  “Haven’t you heard about the ghost of Animal Inn?” said Jake. “On dark and windy nights, it scritches and scratches at windows and doors.”

  “Yeah, and whatever you do,” said Ethan in a spooky voice, “don’t let the ghost inside. Or Animal Inn will be haunted . . . forever!”

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PAUL DUBOIS JACOBS & JENNIFER SWENDER are a husband-and-wife writing team and authors of many books for children, including Count on the Subway, My Subway Ride, My Taxi Ride, and Fire Drill. Paul has also cowritten four books with musician Pete Seeger, including Abiyoyo Returns and The Deaf Musicians, winner of the ALA’s Schneider Family Book Award. Paul and Jennifer have appeared at Lincoln Center, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Virginia Festival of the Book, as well as countless schools, libraries, and museums. They live in Massachusetts. Visit Paul and Jennifer at jacobsandswender.com.

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  Read more Animal Inn books!

  BOOK 1: A Furry Fiasco

  BOOK 2: Treasure Hunt

  BOOK 3: The Bow-wow Bus

  Coming soon:

  BOOK 5: Whooooo Done It?

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin paperback edition August 2017

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  Cover designed by Jessica Handelman

  Interior designed by Greg Stadnyk

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  Library of Congress Control Number 2017931083

  ISBN 978-1-4814-6233-4 (hc)

  ISBN 978-1-4814-6232-7 (pbk)

  ISBN 978-1-4814-6234-1 (eBook)