I work at a high school library and am trying to find titles of two books I had read as a young person back in the 70s. Both were probably titles that I had ordered off of the book order form/flyer that the school handed out back in the day where the kids could order really cheap books, like maybe Scholastic or Troll or something similar.
- This was a ghost story. Something about a young person (a girl, I think) walking down a lane (I think “Lane” might be in the title) and seeing an old cottage type house that sometimes had an old ghost lady (or couple) living there and I think the girl would visit her/them. I don’t think other people saw the ghosts and it appeared to be an abandoned cottage to other people. The girl might not have known that the old lady/couple were ghosts until later on.
- This was a time travel story about young people and something to do with a big wheel. I don’t know if it was a wagon wheel of a water wheel but the wheel was important and “Wheel” may be in the title. It’s not “Wheel of Time” by Robert Jordan.
The first book may be “A Chill in the Lane” by Mabel Esther Allan.
The second book might be Antonia Barber’s The Ghosts. A wheel is an analogy for the structure of time.