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A ghost has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It’s almost Halloween, and reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn’s only hotel. Every day, more and more guests are being scared away. Everyone else is getting scared, too! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose must figure out what’s going on and catch the ghost – before Green Lawn turns into a ghost town!
Read one section at a time, then discuss the questions to review understanding. These questions are a starting place for conversation, not a complete test of the chapter.
Chapter 1
Comprehension questions
What’s the setting of this story?
Page 1 — Dink’s living room on Sunday, in Green Lawn, CT
1
What did the newspaper claim was haunted?
Page 2 — The Shangri-la Hotel in Green Lawn
2
Why is it the biggest week of the year for the hotel?
Page 7 — Many tourists come to see the fall colors
7
Chapter 2
Comprehension questions
Where did Mr. Linkletter explain to the kids what’s going on?
Page 11 — In his office
11
Who’s Livvy?
Page 15 — The hotel maid
15
Why did the kids want to help Mr. Linkletter?
Page 16 — He’s their friend
16
What did the kids think they saw when the elevator door opened?
Page 16 — The ghost
16
Chapter 3
Comprehension questions
Who did the kids meet after they pushed the black button on the elevator and ended up on an unknown floor of the hotel?
Page 21 — Mr. and Mrs. Spivets; Mr. Linkletter’s Aunt and Uncle who used to own the hotel
21
What’s the ghost telling Mr. and Mrs. Spivets?
Page 24 — To go away and leave the hotel
24
Why are the Spivets selling the hotel?
Page 25 — There’s a real estate company that’s been wanting to buy it and with the ghosts they don’t feel they have another choice
25
Chapter 4
Comprehension questions
What did the kids resolve to do since no one they talked to had seen the ghost?
Page 30 — Find someone who had seen it
30
Who did the kids talk to that saw the ghost?
Page 32 — Mr. and Mrs. Jeffers
32
What did Mr. Spivets want the kids to do that night?
Page 35 — Sleep in the hotel so they can solve the mystery and maybe see the ghost
35
Chapter 5
Comprehension questions
Who’s the Casper Nate referred to when saying he wanted to see a ghost?
Page 38 — Casper is from a cartoon called Casper the Friendly Ghost
38
Why is Dink able to stay up later than usual?
Page 41 — There’s no school the next day
41
What’s Rose Ruth’s plan to see the ghost?
Page 42 — Hang out until midnight
42
Chapter 6
Comprehension questions
Where did the kids stake out to see the ghost?
Page 44 — In the cleaning closet
44
What did the ghost call out as it passed each of their family’s rooms?
Page 46 — It called each of the kid’s names and said to leave, its dangerous, or go before its too late and to leave now
46
What clue did Ruth Rose find on the doorframe?
Page 50 — A human hair
50
Chapter 7
Comprehension questions
What was the yucky smell Josh noticed in the hall the night before?
Page 53 — The smell of Halloween make-up
53
What did Livvy find under the Jeffers bed that she thought was a rat?
Page 57 — A wig
57
What’s a dumbwaiter?
Page 58 — Small elevator shaft used to lift small things up and down from one room to another
58
Chapter 8
Comprehension questions
What did the kids and Livvy find while searching the Jeffers’ hotel room?
Page 63 — The wig, a tape with spooky music, a sword, Halloween make-up
63
Where did the kids find the Jeffers?
Page 66 — At Ellie’s eating breakfast
66
How did the Jeffers react when they read the note from Ruth Rose?
Page 69 — They waved the kids over to them and admitted it
69
Chapter 9
Comprehension questions
Why were the Jeffers wanting to scare the hotel guests away?
Page 72 — They’re actors and had been hired by three men to scare them away
72
Why didn’t the Jeffers realize the hotel was closing?
Page 73 — They were told the hotel was being used in a horror movie and that scaring guests away was huge for publicity, and the guests would get their money back and free tickets to the movie; the Jeffers would then have starring roles in the movie
73
Who hired the Jeffers’?
Page 74 — the same men buying the hotel
74
Chapter 10
Comprehension questions
How did Eatch, Rail and Roock realize their plan had been found out?
Page 80 — The Jeffers went up to them during the signing and asked about the movie. The reporter from the Green Lawn Gazette told them the entire town would learn about their plan to trick the Spivets and Mr. Linkletter
80
What did Mrs. the businessmen’s names become when Mrs. Spivets rearranged the letters?
Page 83 — Cheat, Liar and Crook
83
What did the kids receive from the Spivets as a thank you for saving the hotel?
Page 86 — Three airline tickets to Florida, three tickets to Disneyworld and three $50 bills
86
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