Facts About Graylock:
- it used to be a hospital for mental children- it shut down because there had been drownings in the lake
- it lies deep in the woods
The Main Characters:
- Neil, which is the boy who it is mostly about.
- Bree, Neil's sister who is in it to solve the mystery of "Nurse Janet"
- Rebecka, the ghost that helps them find her killer.
- Neil's friends, The Bastise brothers, also help with the mystery.
- Andy, the friend that picks up the bunch when they "attempted" to go into Graylock.
- Neil's aunts, the caretakers of Neil and Bree.
Rebecka's Life
Rebecka had great and happy life, until she saw her mom get murdered by her own stepfather. She had been depressed since then, didn't eat, didn't sleep, and never came out of her room. At school, she wrote a beautiful poem, but if you read the first letter of every sentence it spelled daddy did it and when her stepfather found out about it, her was crushed. Then Rebecka ran away to Graylock, which wasn't very hard because they lived in the same town as Graylock. She said that that was the only place where she felt protected and comfortable. She was hurt after a while that they said that she was getting better and is going home. She never left her room. On one night the power went out because there was a nasty storm, the rain and sleet were spitting at the windows. Her stepfather snuck into the youth ward and killed her, he then dragged her body and threw it in the lake, so it looked like she drowned. There were never any nurses during the night except one. Who always patrolled the outside. The townspeople said that she did it and they ran her out of town. Her name was Janet Reilly. Rebecka has been haunted Graylock in hope that someone will get to hear her story, she wanted the townspeople to understand that is was not Janet Reilly, it was her stepfather.
Story Structure
- It is amazing because at the beginning it is very scary and pulls you in. Then it gives you a scary part and then a mystery that you are wondering "What could it be?"
- Next is the settling out moment of when you are trying to sink in everything that happens.
- Then, there is the turnaround part where your thinking of who it might be was definitely wrong, and a new suspicion comes into play.
- Finally, the mystery is unraveled and the action packed action begins and you are at the edge of the seat, and boom it what you least expect to happen happens and you fall right off your seat!
- The last part of the book is the flattening out of the book where they wrap things up.
- Then it is "The End"
The Excited and Interesting Parts (top 5)
5. The fifth exciting/interesting part of the whole book was when Neil saw a girl crying next to his bed, and thought it was his dream. When he actually woken up, he stepped down and it was wet, so he asked his sister, Bree if she had been in his room and she said, "No, why would I be in there at 5:00 in the morning?"
4. The fourth exciting/ interesting part of the whole book was when they went into Graylock for the first time and saw the ghost.
3. The third exciting/ interesting part of the whole book was when they learned that the ghost of Graylock was NOT Nurse Janet (Janet Reilly), it was a girl who drowned in the lake close by the hospital.
2. The second exciting/interesting part of the whole book was when Andy was chasing them through the woods with a log poker for a fireplace and they went in Graylock, the abandoned hospital, to hide.
1. The top thing that was exciting/ interesting in this whole book would be when they figured out that the mom's and the stepsister's killer was there dad, who was named Andy, and was standing right next to them.
Other Facts:
- The reason how they found out about Rebecka was because she communicated with them
- They found out who did it because they found a poem that Rebecka did and if you read it down it said "daddy did it"
- Rebecka haunted Neil in his dreams, like pretending like he was drowning to communicate with Neil
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