Sleepy Hollow Sleepover by Ron Roy

the headless dude.”
    “Gee, Josh, I have no idea,” Mr. Duncan said.
    “Maybe it was one of the town cops,” Ruth Rose said. “Officer Klevor pretended to lose his head on the wagon, remember?”
    “I asked Officer Klevor when we were at the police station,” Dink said. “He told me the headless horseman wasn’t one of his officers.”
    “Then who was it?” Josh asked. “A ghost?”
    No one in the car said anything. Mr. Duncan pulled onto the highway and headed for home.



Did you find the secret message hidden in this book?
    If you
don’t
want to know the answer,
don’t
look at the bottom of this page!
    Answer:
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN RIDES ON







 
    If you like the
you might want to read
GHOST HORSE
by George Edward Stanley
    Emily got out of bed. She ran to the window and pulled back the curtains. In the moonlight, she could see the beautiful white horse!
    Emily pinched herself. “Ouch!” Now she knew she wasn’t dreaming. The beautiful white horse was really there!
    He started walking toward her window. But the closer he got, the paler he got.
    Emily gasped. She could see through the horse!
    “You’re … you’re a ghost!” she whispered.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Text copyright © 2010 by Ron Roy
Illustrations and map copyright © 2010 by John Steven Gurney
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Roy, Ron.
Sleepy Hollow sleepover / by Ron Roy ; illustrated by John Steven Gurney. — 1st ed.
     p. cm. — (A to Z mysteries super edition ; #4)
“A Stepping Stone book.”
Summary: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying Halloween fun in Sleepy Hollow, New York, but when unplanned spooky things start happening, they investigate whether a real headless horseman might be to blame.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89829-7
[1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. Halloween—Fiction. 3. Robbers and outlaws— Fiction. 4. Sleepy Hollow (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Gurney, John Steven, ill. II. Irving, Washington, 1783–1859. Legend of Sleepy Hollow. III. Title.
PZ7.R8139Sl 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009052930
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