Alison's Ghosts

Joan McGrath is a Toronto Board of Education library consultant.

A blackened pipe bowl, found in a church rummage sale, is the key to open time’s locked door for eleven-year-old Alison. She becomes aware of the presence of a ghostly Micmac shaman, forever seeking his missing spirit pipe, unable to find rest until it is restored to him; and of an old-fashioned father and daughter whose lives have been blighted somewhere in the past by possession of the magical artifact. Half-unwillingly, half in fascination, Alison, with the help of her sisters and cousins, does her best to find the missing pipe stern and bring peace to the troubled spirit, during the course of a haunted, memorable summer. Slight but pleasant junior fiction.