Spirits of the Noh (19 page)

Jiro stood just inside the doors, staring out at Hachiro as the train pulled away. He hadn’t been there a moment before. The ghost watched him with sad eyes, and as the train rattled out of the station he faded from view.

Gone again.

Hachiro stared along the tracks for a long time after the train had gone, frightened and glad all at the same time, and he wondered if, perhaps, he should never have come back to Miyazu City. To Monju-no-Chie school.

To Kara.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THOMAS RANDALL
is the author of the popular children’s fantasy series Adventures in Strangewood. He lives in Tarrytown, New York, and frequently vacations in places that exist only inside his head.

www.thewakingbooks.com

Also by Thomas Randall

The Waking: Dreams of the Dead

Copyright © 2011 by The Daring Greatly Corporation

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First published in the United States of America in June 2011
by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
E-book edition published in June 2011
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Randall, Thomas.
The waking : spirits of the Noh / by Thomas Randall. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.

Summary: Just as Kara and her friends at the Monju-no-Chie school in Japan are beginning to get over the horrifying deaths of two students, another monster emerges to terrorize the school.
ISBN 978-1-59990-251-7 (hardcover)
[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Monsters—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Japan—Fiction. 5. Horror stories.] I. Title. II. Title: Spirits of the Noh.

PZ7.R15845Was 2010    [Fic]—dc22    2009018251

ISBN 978-1-59990-712-3 (e-book)