Night Tourist

Night Tourist

Module 5

SLIS 5420/Module 5/July 5-11

Book for this module

Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh

Bibliographic

Marsh,. (2007). Night Tourist. New York: Hyperion Books for Children

Summary
This book is about a young man name Jack who is the main character in the story. He was hit by a car and his father a professor at the university eventually sends him to visit a friend doctor in New York and while on this trip he is separated from a tour group that he joined. He runs into a little girl named Euri who becomes his tour guide in New York City. Euri is dead and turns out that she is a ghost and they set out to find Luke's mom. Eventually they locate her and come to find out his mom was a ghost that his dad met years ago bringing her to our world and they marry. Luke is now able to put to rest that his mother really did not leave him, and with the happiness she experiences she is able to move on to her resting place.

My Impression
This book provided alot of twist and turns from the very beginning with people leaping out of office windows and Luke trying to figure things out if he is dead or not. Night Tourist really stretches the mind and imagination and a good book to read for someone who is interested in the after world and ghosts.

Reviews
Booklist
Ninth-grade classics-prodigy Jack Perdu is a loner, but his lonely life soon changes after he is struck by a car and suddenly thrust into the underworld beneath New York-the world of the dead. The story can be interesting to follow but presents a fairly easy reading style.

Use in Library Setting
We can talk about safety issues and how important it is to understand your surroundings. We can have a question and answer session to find out if anyone has been injured before, and if so how did they feel, and if anyone has been injured to the point of encountering close death, or do they know anyone that experienced this.