![]() ![]() Caleb, like all slaves and ghosts, is chained to the present by the events of the past, his only hope of escaping is if someone like Kenny puts their own freedom on the line and changes history.Īvi is arguably one of the most celebrated children’s authors of the 20th and 21 st centuries, and for good reason. In the book, a boy named Kenny discovers that his new home in Rhode Island is haunted by the ghost of a murdered slave named Caleb. ![]() Without context, we are “irrelevant”, a lesson learned in SOMETHING UPSTAIRS by Avi, published in 1988 by SCHOLASTIC INC. Without the past, without history, we are without context. We do this primarily because we understand that the past informs the present and the future. If we are not reminiscing or ruminating over our personal history, we are often pondering the history of others. The past has a tendency to trap us and our imaginations. ![]()
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