The Ghost of Shawmont: Adventure and Learning, #1

By Hunter Thornton

When five 5th graders from Shawmont elementary are assigned the entertainment section of their school’s fall festival, the children decide to put on a play that will be remembered for generations. But putting on the play will come with more challenges than expected. The children must take on the task of preparing the school’s old abandoned auditorium for the play.

With an auditorium that looks like something out of a horror movie, filled with decades of ghostly tales and years of disuse, the children have their hands tied. But when strange things start taking place inside the auditorium and their friends disappear one by one, they must get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the auditorium, if they wish to put on their play in time for the Fall Festival. Will they solve the mystery in time, or will it be too late and their friends claimed by the strange happenings inside the auditorium?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hunter Thornton
• Release date: Aug 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536588781

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Introduction

When five 5th graders from Shawmont elementary are assigned the entertainment section of their school’s fall festival, the children decide to put on a play that will be remembered for generations. But putting on the play will come with more challenges than expected. The children must take on the task of preparing the school’s old abandoned auditorium for the play.

With an auditorium that looks like something out of a horror movie, filled with decades of ghostly tales and years of disuse, the children have their hands tied. But when strange things start taking place inside the auditorium and their friends disappear one by one, they must get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the auditorium, if they wish to put on their play in time for the Fall Festival. Will they solve the mystery in time, or will it be too late and their friends claimed by the strange happenings inside the auditorium?

Shawmont Elementary 5th grade class was tasked with providing the entertainment for the school’s fall festival.

Abby, a smart blond girl, Javier, a tall Hispanic boy, Andre, a slim African American, Kimi, a small Japanese girl and Seth, the class’s science geek, walked towards the school’s auditorium.

I don’t know about this. Murmured Andre, slowing down as they neared the auditorium.

The building sat alone at the back of the school. It looked dilapidated and forlorn. Its discolored walls were crumbling in places and covered with moth and vines. Some of the upper windows were broken, and the wind whistled ominously around it.

Andre, chill. Said Abby. Nothing’s going to happen to us.

"Yeah, no