Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Ghosts in the White House
    Ghosts in the White House
    Ghosts in the White House
    Ebook20 pages1 minute

    Ghosts in the White House

    By Lisa Owings

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Presidents of the United States might get some creepy houseguests during their time at the White House—former presidents! Find out which presidents have been sighted haunting their old home and what their unfinished business might be in this high-interest title for young readers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBellwether Media
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781681032252
    Author

    Lisa Owings

    Lisa Owings has a degree in English and creative writing from the University of Minnesota. She has written and edited a wide variety of educational books for young people. Lisa lives in Andover, Minnesota, with her husband and a small menagerie of pets.

    Read more from Lisa Owings

    Related to Ghosts in the White House

    Related ebooks

    Children's Curiosities & Wonders For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Paddling Through History

      Jun 15, 2023

      Paddling to DeCourcy Island is at the top of my summer activities wish list. The Southern Gulf Island region is steeped in thousands of years of culture and history for the Snuneymuxw, Stz’uminus, Lyackson, Halalt, and Penelakut First Nations. DeCour

      9 min read

    • Article

      Making Sense Of Conspiracy Theorists As The World Gets More Bizarre

      Apr 11, 2021

      In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver café with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They’d just returned from protesting the WTO in Seattle to find a new, far stranger foe in town – David Icke. He was there to lecture about how the ruling elite are actually

      8 min read

    • Article

      Roots: The Next Generation

      Apr 24, 2016

      Roots: The Next Generation
      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Apr 27, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      WHOSE House?

      Dec 5, 2021

      WHOSE House?
      2 min read

    • Article

      An Immersive Theater Piece That'll Have You 'Caught' up in Ideas

      Nov 10, 2017

      LOS ANGELES - You've read the New Yorker article. You've heard all of your artist friends talk about him. Now you can hear Chinese dissident artist Lin Bo speak at a downtown L.A. art gallery about the work that got him jailed back home. What's that?

      3 min read

    • Article

      Commentary: They Were Homeless. I Took Them In. Would You?

      Sep 4, 2019

      The first few nights that two strangers spent under my roof, I couldn't sleep. I stashed a rusty hatchet under my bed. The blade was so dull that the best I could have hoped for was that it might cause a tetanus infection. What had I been thinking wh

      4 min read

    • Article

      International Books

      Feb 10, 2020

      How to make a novel seem... novel? Ben Lerner walks a fine line between erudite and esoteric, but what this coming-of-age story lacks in plot and momentum it makes up for in characterisation, imaginative detail and profundity. (I now want to seek out

      4 min read

    • Article

      The week in theatre: Daddy; Black Love; The Fever Syndrome

      Apr 10, 2022

      The very air is different. Bel Air, in fact. Danya Taymor’s phenomenal UK premiere production of Jeremy O Harris’s Daddy (2019) bounces off the stage with the flat glare of a Hockney pool painting. Indeed, there is a real, splash-making pool on stage

      4 min read

    • Article

      Live The Farm Life

      Jul 1, 2023

      Live The Farm Life
      10 min read

    • Article

      Column: Diaspora Baby: What Makes U.S. Latinos So Hard To Define?

      Jul 11, 2023

      In the spring of 2021, I was riding the high of my first big break. I had just settled into a tiny bungalow in East Hollywood — my first L.A. apartment — when I began fielding calls from a slew of agents, managers and producers about optioning my lif

      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Apr 20, 2023

      Alan Murdie’s article “Spirits of Glencoe” [FT428:18-21] describes the infamous massacre, along with latterday commemorations of the event, and the general atmosphere of foreboding that seems to pervade the Glen and surrounding area. Glen Coe is an a

      15 min read

    • Article

      Déja Vû

      Nov 6, 2023

      Déja Vû
      14 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Jul 1, 2022

      After centuries of deferralto the white sky cloud cover God, who kept me on orange alert,babbling for mercies that were batted away sloppilylike dustballs in the wake of a sock, I turned to the Divine Creatrix,who built the short night, I was convinc

      2 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Letter

      Dec 4, 2023

      There’s an interesting video doing the rounds online. It’s from a BBC Panorama show first broadcast in 1961. It is a look at the Irish migrant workers who travelled to England to labour on sites and help rebuild Britain as it struggled to find its po

      2 min read

    • Article

      Man About Town

      Sep 30, 2021

      IN THRALL TO THE STONE-AGE superstition that we will drop down dead if we hear certain forbidden phonemes, society (“borne back ceaselessly into the past”) has now reached the next anthropological taboo, to wit, images: people skulk in terror past st

      4 min read

    • Article

      Low Expectations

      Feb 1, 2019

      Low Expectations
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Ghosts in the White House

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Ghosts in the White House - Lisa Owings

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1