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Title: Dial-A-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes ISBN: 0-14-250018-6 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Five Stars!
Comment: Dial-A-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson is one of the best books I have ever read! I really enjoyed this book because the characters are so well portrayed. The author makes it seem as if you are with these ghosts as all of these amazing things happen to them throughout the book. She writes it with such detail and passion.
It is about a family called the Wilkinsons who suddenly become ghosts when a bomb is dropped on their house in England during World War II. They then come upon the ghost of a lost little girl who cannot remember who she is or what happened to her. The Wilkinsons adopt her and try to find a home for themselves. Later, the little girl, while wandering through the streets of London, came upon an agency that finds homes for ghosts.
The Shriekers are a couple who died very gruesome deaths after they suffered a great loss. They are ghosts who need a home too, but they hate children with a passion. There is nothing that they won't do to little children. The Wilkinsons and the Shriekers are offered different homes but something happens that is unexpected and changes the lives of many people and ghosts, alike.
Rating: 5
Summary: Glorious -all her books for children are
Comment: I'm just finishing reading this to my six-year-old (the nine yearold is listening, despite having read it twice already)and we all love it so much that they can even been torn away from The Simpsons! If you haven't dsicovered Ibbotson yet, start with this one, or The Secret of Platform 13 (which is astoundingly like Harry Potter, but long before Harry Potter was written).
Oliver, an orphan, unwillingly inherits Helton Hall from his dreary relations, never guessing that the evil Fulton and Freida Snodde Brittle (family motto: I set my foot upon my enemies)want it so badly they pay an agency to send them the most horrible ghosts on their books. Luckily, the Shriekers (not only violent, but snobs) get sent to some kind nuns by mistake, and Oliver is sent the lovely, gentle Wilkinson family. The Wilkinsons, who have been camping in a London knicker shop ever since a bomb fell on their own home, have adopted a little girl ghost called Adopta, and she becomes Oliver's special friend. But the evil Snodde-Brittles are furious when, instead of dying of asthma and terror, Oliver loves his new guests...and The Shriekers, equally furious, are coming to Helton too.
Funny, thrilling and moving. We all adored it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Dial-a-Ghost was an okay book.
Comment: When I looked at the cover of the book, I thought it looked interesting but also something someone younger than me would read. I agreed to read it because it was on the Young Adult Book List for my English class. Eva Ibbotson thought up a very clever storyline although it really isn't my kind of book. I would recommend this book only to young people who like reading about weird, not very frightening, ghost adventures.
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Title: The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes ISBN: 0142500879 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Walk Across the Sea by Susan Fletcher ISBN: 0689857071 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Not Just a Witch by Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes ISBN: 0525471014 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson, Kevin Hawkes ISBN: 0525467394 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda ISBN: 0064410196 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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