Title: Steinbeck's Ghost
Description: Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
Subjects: Fiction, Books and reading, Family life, Characters in literature, Libraries, Household Moving, Political activists, Families, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Books and reading, fiction, Libraries, fiction, Family life, fiction, Moving, household, fiction, California, fiction
Places: California, Salinas (Calif.)
People: John Steinbeck (1902-1968)