ElsBeth and the Call of the Castle Ghosties

Book III in The Cape Cod Witch Series When a new kind of enemy threatens their wild and free ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands, three ancient ghosts know they need one of their clan from the living world. They call the Thistle heir from across the sea to the old country. Almost-ten-year-old ElsBeth Amelia Thistle, the youngest witch on Cape Cod, has her own need to find out more about the family mysteries, and a personal calling to protect the natural world. But even with help from a curious cast of magical creatures she befriends, and her spirited classmates who’ve been swept along, (including the feisty black fashionista Veronica, a Wampanoag chief-to-be Johnny, and Frankie, who wants to follow in the footsteps of his prize-fighting Uncle Vittorio), ElsBeth is nonetheless in way over her magic level -- and into older, odder mysteries than she could ever dream -- in an adventure just above the surface of reality. Awarded (pre-publication) Honorable Mention in the 2013 Midwest Book Festival in the Unpublished Manuscript category (the only children’s book awarded in this category).