# Breathe: A Ghost Story

**Author:** Cliff McNish
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 2006
**Page count:** 264
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780761349624`
**ISBN-10:** `0761349626`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/breathe-a-ghost-story
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolentspirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2010-2011 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2010-2011 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2010-2011 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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