Ghosts beneath our feet vs The Thirteenth Floor: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Ghosts beneath our feet Ghosts beneath our feet Betty Ren Wright · 1984 ★★★★☆ 3.8 137 pages · ≈ 2 h 32 m · Light

During a summer in an abandoned mining town, Katie's relationship with a rebellious stepbrother improves as they probe the past to find out why there seem to be ghosts, literally, beneath their feet.

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Cover of The Thirteenth Floor The Thirteenth Floor Sid Fleischman · 1995 ★★★★☆ 3.8 217 pages · ≈ 4 h 01 m · Light

When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.

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Ghosts beneath our feetThe Thirteenth Floor
Goodreads — 3.8 (121)

Reception

Ghosts beneath our feetThe Thirteenth Floor
Ratings 1 121
Editions 8 14
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 56
Reading it now — 3
Written reviews — 22
Wikipedia attention — 14730
Pages 137 217

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