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itwould be tiny. Maybe it would even be one of those artificial ones.
    But what did it matter?
    She started again. “You’d like my gran,” she said. “I know you would. And her Christmas is always huge. There’d be plenty of room for all of us.”
    Kaye glanced at her parents as she spoke.
Was it all right?
She knew she should have asked them first.
    To her relief, they were both nodding. “That’s a wonderful idea!” her mother said. “You must come!”
    “Yes,” agreed Kaye’s father.
    “I’d love to,” Elsa said, still crying, still smiling. “Yes, I’d love to.”
    And Kaye twirled, clapping her hands.
    When she had to stop for breath, she looked back toward the woods.

    There, at the edge of the trees, stood a girl. She wore a green cape, as green as a pine tree, with a silvery green velvet lining.
    She waved to Kaye.
    And though she was too far away to see for sure, Kaye could have sworn that Lillian was crying and smiling, too.

About the Author
    Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than sixty books for children, including the Newbery Honor-winning
On My Honor
. She has also won the Kerlan Award for her collected work. Marion’s first Stepping Stone book,
The Blue Ghost
, was named to the Texas Bluebonnet Award 2007-2008 Master List. Marion teaches writing and is on the faculty of the Vermont College Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.
    Marion has nine grandchildren and lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Text copyright © 2008 by Marion Dane Bauer
Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Peter Ferguson
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Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House Children’s Books in 2008.
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The green ghost / by Marion Dane Bauer ; illustrated by Peter