Title: Ghost Girl
Description: Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
Subjects: Fiction, Grief, Teachers, Schools, History, Children's fiction, Schools, fiction, Teachers, fiction, Virginia, fiction, Grief, fiction, Large type books, Juvenile fiction
Places: 20th century, Skyline Drive (Va.), Virginia
People: Herbert Hoover (1874-1964,), Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944)
Time periods: 20th century