The Ghost of Fossil Glen

This awesome book by Cynthia Defelice is my all time favorite book that I read when I was in elementary school. In my school it was required we read a certain number of Bluebonnet Award books, so I chose this one. I was either in fourth or fifth grade when I first read this book. I wasn't big on reading and still aren't, but I absolutely loved this one. I'm really into the whole ghost story, mystery books and movies so it was no wonder I liked this one so much. But it wasn't your normal ghost story, it actually "left you hanging on the edge of your seat," as they say, dying to know what happens next. It's about an 11 year-old girl named Allie who is searching for fossils one day and next thing you know finds herself hanging from Fossil Glen. Scared to death, she doesn't know what to do and then hears a voice talking to her. Wondering who the voice was and where it came from, Allie discovers it belongs to a girl who died named Lucy Stiles. From here, Allie receives her diary and learns all about her life right before she died and learns who killed her as well. This is a great story and I enjoyed reading it again after all these years.