7 A GHOSTLY WARNING

CHAPTER 7 A GHOSTLY WARNING What happened?" Maddie asked as she and Claire moved slowly through the children's center. Kaz and Little John drifted above them. They all stared at the floor in dismay. There were hundreds, maybe even thousands, of books strewn around. "It looks like there was an earthquake," Claire said. "This wasn't an earthquake," said Lynette. "Did someone break into the library?" Maddie asked. "We don't think so," Andrea replied. "There's no sign of forced entry. Nothing seems to be missing. Nothing is out of place anywhere else in

第七章幽灵的警告发生了什么事？”玛蒂问，她和克莱尔慢慢地穿过儿童中心。 卡兹和小约翰漂在他们上面。 他们都惊愕地盯着地板。 那里散落着成百上千本书。 “看起来像是发生了地震，”克莱尔说。 “这不是地震，”Lynette说。 “有人闯进图书馆了吗？”玛迪问道。 “我们不这么认为，”安德里亚回答。 “没有强行进入的迹象。 似乎什么也没少。 在其他地方没有什么是不合适的

the building. But for some reason, most of the kids' books were on the floor this morning." A light-haired boy pulled on Claire's shirt. "It was a ghost," he said. "Probably the same one who was here yesterday." Little John gasped. "Is he talking about me?" he asked. "Does he think I made this mess?" Kaz remembered that boy from yesterday. He saw Little John. He also said he saw a ghost with chains in the library once. "It wasn't the ghost from yesterday," said a girl with long braids. She'd been here yesterday, too. She was the one Little John wanted to play with. "How do you know, Claire?" the light-haired boy asked the girl with the braids.

大楼。但是由于某种原因，今天早上大多数儿童读物都在地板上。” 一个浅色头发的男孩穿上了克莱尔的衬衫。 “那是个鬼，”他说。 “可能就是昨天来这里的那个人。” 小约翰喘着气说。“他在说我吗？”他问。 “他认为是我弄得一团糟吗？”卡兹想起了昨天的那个男孩。 他看见了小约翰。他还说有一次他在图书馆看到一个带着锁链的鬼魂。 “这不是昨天的鬼魂，”一个留着长辫子的女孩说。 她昨天也来过这里。 她是小约翰想和她一起玩的人。 “你怎么知道的，克莱尔？”浅色头发的男孩问扎辫子的女孩。

Kaz, Little John, and Claire all exchanged looks. The girl with the braids was named Claire, too? "Because he was a nice ghost," Claire-with- the-braids said. Little John beamed. "I don't think it was a ghost," Andrea said. "Don't be too sure about that," Lynette said. "The security guard showed us video footage from last night. We could see books falling off the shelves on the video. But there wasn't anyone there knocking them off. How do you explain that if it wasn't a ghost?" "I don't know," Andrea said. "But there's got to be another explanation." "Maybe whoever did it knew where to stand so they wouldn't get caught on camera?" Claire suggested. "It's not just all the books on the floor," Lynette said. "The ghost is trying to communicate with us. Look." She pointed at a row of computers.

卡兹、小约翰和克莱尔都交换了一下眼色。 那个扎辫子的女孩也叫克莱尔吗？ “因为他是个好鬼，”扎辫子的克莱尔说。 小约翰笑了。“我不认为那是鬼，”安德烈说。 “不要太肯定，”Lynette说。 “保安给我们看了昨晚的录像。 从录像中我们可以看到书从书架上掉下来。 但没有人在那里把它们敲掉。 如果那不是鬼，你怎么解释呢？”“我不知道，”安德烈说。 “但肯定有别的解释。” “也许做这件事的人知道该站在哪里，这样才不会被摄像头拍到？”克莱尔建议。 “不仅仅是地板上的书，”Lynette说。 “鬼魂想和我们交流。 看。”她指着一排电脑。

The same message appeared in large letters on each screen: Cancel the Halloween party. Or else! It was signed The Library Ghost. "This is a very dangerous ghost," Lynette said. "We need to cancel this party, and we need to cancel it now. Otherwise there could be trouble." Maddie looked worried. "We're not going to cancel the party, are we?" she asked Andrea. Andrea rubbed her forehead. "I don't know yet," she said in a tired voice. "First we need to clean up this mess. Then we'll decide what to do about the party." "We'll help clean it up. Won't we, Claire?" Maddie said. "Of course," Claire said. She and Maddie started picking up books. "Put them in alphabetical order," said a lady who was stacking books on a cart behind them. "We need to find out who did this," Claire whispered to the ghosts. "I'm going to be busy here for a while. Can you guys go look for clues?"

每个屏幕上都出现了同样的大字：取消万圣节派对。 否则!署名是《图书馆之鬼》。 “这是一个非常危险的鬼魂，”勒奈特说。 “我们得取消这个派对，现在就取消。 否则会有麻烦的。” 麦蒂看上去很担心。“我们不会取消派对吧？”她问安德里亚。 安德烈揉了揉额头。 “我还不知道，”她用疲惫的声音说。 “首先，我们需要清理这个烂摊子。 然后我们再决定派对怎么办。” “我们会帮忙清理的。不是吗，克莱尔？”玛迪说。 “当然，”克莱尔说。她和麦迪开始捡书。 “把它们按字母顺序放好，”一位女士说，她正在后面的推车上堆放书。 “我们得找出是谁干的。”克莱尔对鬼魂耳语道。 “我要在这儿忙一阵子了。 你们能去找找线索吗？”

"C, K, and LJ Detectives to the rescue!" Little John said, punching his fist in the air. LJ Detectives? Kaz thought with a raised eyebrow. But he wasn't going to argue. The ghosts wafted past the security guard, who stared intently at all three computer screens in front of her. Kaz circled back to see what was on those screens. It looked like several different views around the library.

“C， K和LJ侦探来救援”小约翰说着，在空中挥舞着拳头。 LJ侦探吗?卡兹扬起眉毛想道。 但他不想争辩。 鬼魂从保安身边飘过，保安目不转睛地盯着她面前的三台电脑屏幕。 卡兹转了一圈，想看看屏幕上显示的是什么。 它看起来像是图书馆周围的几个不同的景观。

"Hurry up, Kaz," Little John called from the dark auditorium. Kaz swam into the auditorium and followed his brother up over the rows of chairs to the third floor of the library. They floated past the checkout desk and above the escalator that had quit working yesterday. Kaz was glad to see that it was working again today. "Where are you, you ghost?" Little John called, looking all around. "We don't know for sure that it's a ghost," Kaz pointed out. "It would take a lot of energy for one ghost to knock all those solid books on the floor. And even more energy to push keys on keyboards and type that warning on all those computer screens." "If it wasn't a ghost, who was it?" Little John asked. "Someone who doesn't want the library to have a Halloween party," Kaz replied. "Like who?" Little John asked.

“快点，卡兹。”小约翰从漆黑的礼堂里喊道。 和子游进礼堂，跟着哥哥越过一排排椅子，来到图书馆的三楼。 他们漂过收银台，漂过昨天停止工作的自动扶梯。 卡兹很高兴看到它今天又能工作了。 “你在哪儿，你这个鬼？”小约翰叫着，环顾四周。 卡兹指出：“我们不确定它是不是鬼。” “一个鬼魂要把那么多实打实的书敲到地板上需要很大的能量。 还要花更多的精力在键盘上按键，在所有电脑屏幕上输入警告信息。” “如果不是鬼，那是谁？”小约翰问。 “一个不希望图书馆举办万圣节派对的人，”卡兹回答。 “像谁?”小约翰问。