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The Girl Across the Water by Kihara, Jody is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Paul VanDerMere is looking forward to a summer of canoeing, swimming, and hanging out with his dad at their lakeside cabin in the woods. At first, the only thing getting in the way of his enjoyment is his stepbrother Jasper. But when Paul and Jasper are canoeing back from a small, uninhabited island on the lake, Paul glances back and sees a young girl staring back at him. He's not even sure if he saw her was she real, or an apparition?He's soon drawn in to the unsettling mystery of a strange girl who randomly appears and disappears from the island. When he hears a local ghost story about a young girl just like her, he begins to wonder if he's dealing with a real person or something entirely different.EXCERPTAs I pushed away from the island, I turned around to take one last look, and almost dropped the paddle.Sticking out from the thick foliage was a girls head and shoulders. She looked about eight or nine years old, with shoulder-length, brown hair pulled into braids at the sides of her head. Her eyes were dark and fierce, and they glared at me as she held her finger up to her lips. The message was Dont tell.And then she disappeared. My whole body jerked. I blinked a few times, le

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Kihara, Jody
Publisher
Jody Kihara
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780981311135
Category
work of fiction
Rating
3.5 / 5 (8 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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