1 A VISIT TO SEATTLE

NEWSPAPERSA BY EDGAR AWARD WINNER DORI HILLESTAD BUTLER The HAUNTED LIBRARY THE UNDERGROUND GHOSTS SUPER SPECIAL

埃德加奖得主多里·希勒斯塔德·巴特勒的《报纸》闹鬼的图书馆地下幽灵超级特辑

CHAPTER 1 A VISIT TO SEATTLE Look, Kaz!" Little John gazed out Claire's window. "We're up above the clouds!" Kaz didn't want to look. He, Little John, and Claire were on an airplane. Claire had flown on an airplane before, but this was a new experience for the ghosts. Kaz wasn't sure he liked it. "I wonder what it would feel like to pass through a cloud," Little John said, edging closer to the window. Kaz pulled him back. "We're not going to find out," he said. Claire smiled at Kaz and Little John as they floated above her. She couldn't talk to them

第一章西雅图之行看，卡兹！小约翰凝视着克莱尔的窗外。 “我们在云层之上了！”卡兹不想看。 他、小约翰和克莱尔在一架飞机上。 克莱尔以前坐过飞机，但这对鬼魂来说是一次全新的体验。 卡兹不确定他是否喜欢。 “我想知道穿过云层是什么感觉。”小约翰边说边靠近窗户。 卡兹把他拉了回来。“我们不会找到答案，”他说。 克莱尔微笑着看着卡兹和小约翰，他们漂浮在她的头顶上。 她不能和他们说话

because there were too many people around. Those people couldn't see or hear ghosts like she could, so they would wonder who she was talking to. Claire and her ghost friends were on their way to Seattle. Claire's parents were at a convention for detectives, and Grandma Karen was at a convention for librarians. So they had arranged for Claire to spend the week with her aunt Beth and cousin Maddie. Back before she met Kaz and Little John, Claire used to live in Seattle. She saw Aunt Beth and Maddie all the time then because they took care of her whenever her parents were away. But Claire's family had moved to Iowa last year to be closer to Grandma Karen. This was Claire's first trip back to Seattle. And her first trip without her parents. Claire couldn't imagine a better time to visit Aunt Beth and Maddie because Halloween was this Friday. Maddie was on the teen advisory

因为周围的人太多了。 那些人不能像她那样看到或听到鬼魂，所以他们会怀疑她在和谁说话。 克莱尔和她的鬼魂朋友在去西雅图的路上。 克莱尔的父母参加了侦探大会，凯伦奶奶参加了图书管理员大会。 所以他们安排克莱尔和她的姨妈贝丝和表妹玛蒂一起过一周。 在遇到卡兹和小约翰之前，克莱尔住在西雅图。 那时她总是能见到贝丝姨妈和玛蒂，因为父母不在的时候她们就照顾她。 但克莱尔的家人去年搬到了爱荷华州，离卡伦奶奶更近一些。 这是克莱尔第一次回西雅图。 也是她第一次没有父母陪伴的旅行。 克莱尔无法想象一个更好的时间去拜访贝丝阿姨和麦迪，因为万圣节是这个星期五。 麦迪也在青少年建议名单上

board at the Seattle Public Library, and they had planned an overnight Halloween party at the library. There would be ghost stories, crafts, and games. Claire could hardly wait. "Remember, Little John. You said you'd be on your best behavior if you got to come to Seattle with Claire and me," Kaz said. "I am on my best behavior," Little John replied. "No glowing. No wailing. And no scaring solid people," Kaz said. "No passing through airplane windows, either!"

他们计划在图书馆举办一个通宵的万圣节派对。 会有鬼故事、工艺品和游戏。 克莱尔等不及了。“记住，小约翰。 卡兹说：“你说过，如果你能和我和克莱尔一起去西雅图，你就会表现得很好。” “我在好好表现，”小约翰回答。 “不发光。没有哭声。也不会吓到可靠的人，”卡兹说。 “也不能从飞机窗户穿过！”

"I was just looking out the window," Little John said. "I wasn't going to pass through it. Relax, Kaz. We're on vacation!" How was Kaz supposed to relax when he had to worry about his little brother? Honestly, Kaz was surprised Mom and Pops let him and Little John go all the way to Seattle. Especially after everything that had happened to their family.

“我只是往窗外看，”小约翰说。 “我不打算穿过它。 放松,Kaz。我们在度假！”卡兹在担心他弟弟的时候怎么能放松呢？ 说实话，卡兹很惊讶爸爸妈妈让他和小约翰大老远去西雅图。 尤其是在他们家发生了那么多事之后。

A year ago, Kaz and Little John lived with their big brother, Finn, their parents, their grandparents, and their dog, Cosmo, in an old abandoned schoolhouse. Everything was fine until Finn accidentally passed through the schoolhouse wall, and the wind blew him away. Grandmom and Grandpop tried to rescue Finn, but they blew away, too. A few months after that, the schoolhouse was torn down and the rest of the ghosts blew away. Kaz didn't think he'd ever see his family again. The wind blew Kaz to a small-town library. That was where he met Claire. Claire lived above the library with her parents and her grandma. Kaz and Claire had formed a detective agency, C & K Ghost Detectives, to solve ghostly mysteries and find Kaz's family. It took a while, but they found everyone—Kaz's whole family. Now what if someone got lost again? What if Kaz or Little John got lost in Seattle?

一年前，卡兹和小约翰和他们的哥哥芬恩、父母、祖父母以及他们的狗科斯莫一起住在一所废弃的旧校舍里。 一切都很好，直到芬恩不小心穿过校舍的墙，被风吹走了。 爷爷奶奶想去救芬恩，但他们也被风吹走了。 几个月后，校舍被拆除，剩下的鬼魂也被吹走了。 卡兹以为他再也见不到家人了。 风把和子吹到了一个小镇的图书馆。 他就是在那里认识克莱尔的。 克莱尔和她的父母以及奶奶住在图书馆的楼上。 卡兹和克莱尔成立了一家侦探事务所，C & K幽灵侦探，以解决幽灵之谜并找到卡兹的家人。 花了些时间，但他们找到了所有人——卡兹的全家。 如果有人又迷路了怎么办？ 如果卡兹或小约翰在西雅图迷路了怎么办？