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cbaker
Since: Nov, 2015

A book I enjoyed when I was about 10 or 11. I read the whole thing in the span of a day.
There was a little brother and a slightly older sister. Both of them lived deep in the woods on their own. Maybe they were preteen age. The sister was a fan of Roy Rogers, an actor from waaaaaaaaay back in the day.
The other main character was a girl who's name started with a V — I think it was "Virginia" — who moved out into an old house in the woods with her father. Her diary entries are scattered throughout the book. My version had them written in italics, just to throw that out there. Pretty sure she was around the age of 12.
The kids befriend Virginia eventually. I remember there was also an evil ghost lady or something that scared the brother and sister away from either going into a house, leaving a house, or leaving the forest. And, of course, towards the end, it's revealed the siblings were ghosts themselves. Neither of them realized it until later, though.
We find out they died hugging each other after being locked in a cellar, and they confront the ghost lady. After seeing glowing apparitions of their parents, they ascend to heaven. I think the ghost lady (who may have accidentally killed them) is allowed to ascend, too. Lovely stuff, really.
One detail I remember was how the ghost girl was musing how the bottoms of her feet were completely black from years of roughing it in the wilderness.
What the heck was this book called?
Edited by JadenR