From the book: "This is one of Douglas Evans' bests works of fictions. Anyone who can remember those days of elementary school will love this book. Stories about a chalk dust jeanie, a purple reader for a kid who thinks reading is impossible, and a new art teacher that makes art fun." The book begins: "Parents say the classroom is haunted," Mr. Leeks, the custodian at Walter T. Melon Elementary, told us on the first day of school.
He leaned on his mop handle as if it were a crutch. He raised a bushy gray eyebrow and squinted an eye. His whiskers rasped like sandpaper as he stroked his narrow chin.
"And sometimes in the evening when I'm mopping the hallway, I hear sounds myself coming from that room-that room at the end of the hall," he said. "I hear desks banging shut, and chalk squeaking on the blackboard. I hear creaks from the floor and scrapes from the ceiling. Gives me the willies, it does." This file should make a fine embossed braille copy.
