Lou Kassem
Author of A Haunting in Williamsburg
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- Birthdate
- 1931
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Blacksbury, Virginia, USA
- Short biography
- A fourth generation daughter of the mountains, Lou Kassem lives in Blacksburg, VA. She has always "told stories." Writing novels followed naturally. She has published 11 books for young people. "The laughter and tears associated with growing up fascinate me. Since each young person is different I never run out of material."
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Twin ghosts, girl named Reagan in Name that Book (January 2012)
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Middle School Blues by Lou Kassem
Cindy has two older sisters who are going to college while she's just starting middle school. She wants to be a writer and nothing seems to go right at first, but it works out.
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I found this book while organizing a library of used books for an English Institute in Korea. What caught my attention was "old-fashioned romance set during the Civil War" printed on the cover. Historial fiction is one of my favorite genres. The story actually begins a couple of years before the Civil War and it took the author half of the book to bring you to the war which made for a slow moving story for me. Overall, I felt the author did a splendid job of writing and found it to be a fairly quick read.… (more)
I definitely liked the character of Rachel- she was a good person, a hard worker, and interesting. The part in the back about Rachel's ghost made me wonder though- I'm guessing this was based on a real person. How true to her story is it?
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- Works
- 10
- Members
- 354
- Popularity
- #67,648
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 23