the Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered what Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There by Daniel Pinkwater

So, apparantly I have gone and read another book that is a sequel without reading the book that comes before it again.  That is ok, you don't have to have read the prior book to enjoy this one.  Written for children in grades 4 to 9 or so, this is a cute and funny book about Yggdrasil Birnbaum who lives in a haunted hotel and goes on adventure to find out where her ghost friends have been disappearing to.  Set in LA in the early 1950s with the ghosts of Rudolph Valentino, LaBrea girl , Chase, the ghost bunny, and many others, this book is full of Pinkwater's highly descriptive fun and nonsense.  I personally enjoyed it a lot, but I think that a lot of the puns and humor may be about things that 4th to 9th graders have no knowledge of and so they may miss some of the humor.