REVIEW: Haunted Campground Mystery

Haunted Campground Mystery
Author: Dian Curtis Regan

I really enjoy this cute middle-grade mystery series. I read a lot of heavy, dark adult thriller novels, and sometimes between books I just need something lighter, refreshing, kinder to clear my head. I turn to middle-grade books often as palate cleansers. Fun reads....entertaining and a bit of sunshine for a brain a bit weighed down by adult themes. This series is one of my favorites!

Beka and Robbie are twins. But they are a bit different. They've both been dead for 50 years. In 1942, they accidentally drowned. They still live in their old house near Kickingbird Lake, but the house is part of a vacation resort now. The twins get to "meet'' all sorts of people who stay in their former house, and they invisibly help solve little mysteries that pop up. Add in their ghost St. Bernard, Thatch, to the mix and it's just incredi-cute.

The Haunted Campground Mystery is the 6th book in the series. This time a group of Mountain Adventure Club girls (sort of like Girl Scouts) are staying in the house. They are going on an overnight camping trip. One of the girls seems to sense the ghosts are there, and the group quickly starts to get spooked. The twins come along on the camping trip. Robbie wants to give them a bit of a scare....but just for fun. Beka wishes she could be a Mountain Adventure Club member like she used to be when she was alive. Little do they realize that the girls, and the ghosts, are in for a bit of a surprise on this trip!

This is a fun, entertaining and slightly spooky read. :) Everything is definitely age-appropriate. This would be fun to read out loud to kids on a trip, or as reading on a car ride or camping trip.

There are 8 books in total in this series by Dian Curtis Regan. I will be sad when I reach the end! Luckily the author has written several other similar children's books including Monster of the Week and Jilly's Ghost.