# Ghost Cadet

**Author:** Elaine Marie Alphin
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 1991
**Page count:** 182
**Genre:** Horror
**ISBN-13:** `9780805016147`
**ISBN-10:** `0805016147`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ghost-cadet
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.

## Themes

- campaigns
- ghosts
- grandmothers
- history

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1994-1995 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1994-1995 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1994-1995 winner (Elementary)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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