1 Yes, We Do Haunted Houses

BY EDGAR AWARD WINNER DORI HILLESTAD BUTLER The HAUNTED LIBRARY THE GHOST IN THE ATTIC

埃德加奖得主多里·希勒斯塔德·巴特勒著《闹鬼的图书馆》《阁楼上的鬼魂》

CHAPTER 1 YES, WE DO HAUNTED HOUSES "What's the matter, Kaz?" Claire asked as she shook the dice in her hand. "You look so sad." Kaz was sad. He and Claire were playing a dice game in the craft room. Claire rolled the dice for both of them. Kaz couldn't help noticing that Claire always seemed to roll better for herself than she did for him. But that wasn't why Kaz was sad. He was sad because it had been three weeks since he'd lost his haunt. And three weeks since he'd seen his mom, his dad, his brother Little John, or his dog, Cosmo.

第一章是的，我们做鬼屋“怎么了，卡兹？”克莱尔一边摇着手里的骰子一边问。 “你看起来很伤心。”卡兹很伤心。 他和克莱尔在工艺室玩骰子游戏。 克莱尔为他们俩都掷了骰子。 卡兹不禁注意到，克莱尔似乎总是更喜欢自己，而不是他。 但这并不是卡兹伤心的原因。 他很伤心，因为他已经有三个星期没有出没的地方了。 他已经三周没见过他的妈妈，他的爸爸，他的弟弟小约翰，还有他的狗，科斯莫了。

It had been even longer than that since he'd seen his brother Finn, or his grandparents. Mom and Dad always said that maybe one day Finn, Grandmom, and Grandpop would find their way back to their old haunt. But Kaz knew that would never happen now. Their haunt was gone. And his entire family was gone, too. The wind had carried Kaz over fields... houses... trees... and into Claire's library. Kaz had no idea what had happened to the rest of his family. Or if he'd ever see them again. "Are you thinking about your family?" Claire asked. "Sort of," Kaz admitted. Claire was a solid, but she wasn't like other solids. She could see ghosts when they weren't glowing. And she could hear ghosts when they weren't wailing. Kaz was a ghost, but he wasn't like other ghosts. He couldn't glow. He couldn't wail. And he didn't like to pass through solid objects.

他已经很久没见过他的哥哥芬恩，也没见过他的祖父母了。 妈妈和爸爸总是说，也许有一天芬恩，奶奶和爷爷会找到他们的老地方。 但是卡兹知道现在不可能了。 他们常去的地方不见了。他的家人也都不在了。 风把卡兹吹过田野…… 房子……树……进了克莱尔的图书馆 卡兹不知道他的家人发生了什么事。 也不知道他还能不能再见到他们。 “你在考虑你的家人吗？”克莱尔问道。 “有点吧，”卡兹承认。克莱尔是固体，但她不像其他固体。 她能看见不发光的鬼魂。 她能听到鬼魂不哀号时的声音。 卡兹是鬼魂，但他和其他鬼魂不一样。 他不能发光。他哭不出来。 他不喜欢穿过固体物体。

"Don't worry, Kaz," Claire said. "We'll find your family. That's why we started our detective agency, remember?" Beckett snickered. He was the other ghost who lived at the library. Beckett spent most of his time in his secret room behind the bookcase in the craft room. But sometimes he came out to read library books. "What?" Claire narrowed her eyes at Beckett. "What are you laughing at?" "Nothing," Beckett said, turning a page in a book. "If you want to call yourselves detectives, it isn't any of my business. But you've only solved one case and it wasn't even a hard one.", "It was, too!" Claire argued. Kaz had to agree. He had thought he and Claire would never figure out who, or what, was haunting the library. "If you say so," Beckett said. "But let me ask you this: Who's going to hire a kid and a ghost to solve a mystery?"

“别担心，卡兹，”克莱尔说。 “我们会找到你的家人。这就是我们创办侦探事务所的原因，记得吗？”贝克特窃笑起来。 他是另一个住在图书馆的鬼魂。 贝克特大部分时间都待在工艺室书柜后面的密室里。 但有时他会出来看图书馆的书。 “什么?”克莱尔眯起眼睛看着贝克特。 “你笑什么呢？”“没什么，”贝克特说着，翻了一页书。 “如果你们想自称侦探，那与我无关。 但你只破了一个案子，而且还不算难。”克莱尔说。 卡兹不得不同意。他原以为他和克莱尔永远也搞不清楚是谁或什么东西在图书馆闹鬼。 “既然你这么说，”贝克特说。 “但让我问你一个问题：谁会雇佣一个孩子和一个鬼魂来解开一个谜团？”

"People who have ghosts in their houses," Claire said, like it was obvious. Beckett snickered again. "We won't laugh at them like grown-up detectives would," Claire said. "We'll go to their houses and find their ghosts. And even if those ghosts don't want to talk to me, they'll talk to Kaz. Because he's a ghost like they are." "How is Kaz going to go anywhere?" Beckett asked. "He can't go into the Outside. He'll blow away." Kaz hadn't thought about that. But Claire shrugged like it was no big deal. "We'll figure something out." "How will those solids—" Beckett began. "Don't call us solids," Claire interrupted. Kaz knew Claire didn't like that word. But that didn't stop Beckett. "How will those solids"—he put extra emphasis on the word "solids" just to annoy Claire—"find out about your detective agency? Will you put an ad in the

“家里有鬼的人，”克莱尔说，好像很明显。 贝克特又窃笑起来。“我们不会像成年侦探那样嘲笑他们，”克莱尔说。 “我们要去他们的房子里找他们的鬼魂。 即使那些鬼魂不想跟我说话，他们也会跟卡兹说话的。 因为他和他们一样都是鬼。” “卡兹要怎么去别的地方？”贝克特问道。 “他不能到外面去。 他会被吹走的。”卡兹没有想过这个问题。 但克莱尔耸耸肩，好像没什么大不了的。 “我们会想出办法的。” “那些固体怎么能——”贝克特开始说。 “别叫我们固体，”克莱尔打断他。 卡兹知道克莱尔不喜欢这个词。 但这并没有阻止贝克特。 “那些人”——他在“人”这个词上加了重音，只是为了惹恼克莱尔——“怎么知道你们侦探事务所的事？” 你会在报上登广告吗