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The Gingi

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5, 6, 7
Page count: 14
Categories: African-American, Folk Tale, Ghosts, Halloween, Horror, Scary, Southern
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Author

Patricia
McKissack
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Appeared in

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Story Summary

When Laura buys a small African figure from the Mother Africa Shop, she doesn't realize that, like the Trojan horse, it houses horrors beyond her imagination.