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Margaret Mahy
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Publisher | Faber & Faber | ||
ISBN | 978-057123482 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
At last! At last! I will have my revenge! Ditta wants to be a detective - and when her best friend Max tells her that his new bedroom is haunted she has her first mystery to solve. But as the spirit starts to communicate through Max's computer, Ditta discovers they could all be in terrible danger. With the help of the school ghost Hilly, Max and Ditta must unravel the truth quickly - before the spirit carries out his terrifying plan of revenge...Softly spooky, charmingly comic: Margaret Mahy's brand new novel for younger readers has elements of Casper the Friendly Ghost and will appeal to readers of Davd Almond and Michael Morpurgu. As ever with Margaret writing, at the heart of the story is a deep sympathy and affection for the child's point of view - the characters are love able, their relationships and camaraderie sweet, and it is full of delightful comic touches, fizzy dialog and wry observations about family and friendship.
Review
If you can't sleep, and you've too much on your mind, pick up a children's book - read it- have a chuckle - and then give it to the gran-kids!
Portable Ghosts is just so hilarious that I was both curious and yet in fits of laughter from page one! Fancy finding a a Ghost in your local school library and then a friend having one in their bedroom. What could be more fun than that? Well our two main characters had just that, Ditta and her friend Max.
All the characters in the book are brilliant and how they get to talking to ghosts is so funny, because all Ditta wants to be is a detective but no-one will listen.
This is a brilliant book, great for the youngsters who can read for themselves. They will love this story and want to tell all their friends about it. The story just goes at such a pace you just can not put it down and the fun the children have with the ghost is second to none.
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