It's a good story, but the buildup is far too long. Her father's just died a couple months ago and it takes her so many pages to realize he's telling her in her dreams to take his place as the town's teacher. Yeah, it's got a smidge of a supernatural element, too. No real ghosts though.
I found the resistance to Sarah Jane teaching to be a bit ridiculous, because she's got, like, a dozen pupils and no one else is lining up for the job.
The story's rather boring. First, it's her not knowing what to do to earn money, then it's teaching stories and issues between the other boarders at the house she's staying in.
Historical teaching stories are never that interesting to me, because of all the different age groups crammed into one building and the older kids aren't so much always learning as they are helping teach the younger ones.
It's not a horrible book in the series, but it's just kinda there.
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