# Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma

**Author:** Joe Hayes
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2014
**Page count:** 77
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780938317838`
**ISBN-10:** `0938317830`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ghost-fever-mal-de-fantasma
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In his classic bilingual style, Joe tells the story of a haunted house in a poor little town in Arizona. Nobody will rent that house because they know a ghost lives there. So the landlord tries to rents it out for free. Still nobody will rent it. That is, until Elena’s father rents it. He doesn’t believe in ghosts. Lucky for Elena that her grandmother knows all about the ways of ghosts. Elena, with the help of her grandmother, resolves the mystery of “ghost fever”—and learns a lesson about life.

## Where this book is assigned

### Texas Bluebonnet Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2007 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2007 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2007 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2007 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)

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