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Title: The Boggart by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0-689-80173-4 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: it was good
Comment: Imagine if strange things started to happen around your house and you were always blamed for it, when someone, or something else, caused all these strange happenings. This happened to Emily and Jessup Volnik, in The Boggart by Susan Cooper. The Vonik family inherits a castle in Scotland, from their great uncle, the MacDevon, who dies. The Voniks brought back furniture from their castle, along with the boggart, who they never knew about. The boggart arrives in Canada, and to him this is a new world with advanced technology and plenty of opportunities to perform tricks on his new family. Emily and Jessup learn more and more about the boggart everyday, as he keeps getting them in trouble with his tricks. Emily and Jessup struggle to find a way to send the boggart back to his home in Scotland, with the help from Tommy Cameron, who lives in Scotland also. Read to find out how Emily and Jessup get the boggart back to his home.
I think that The Boggart is an amazing book for many reasons. First of all, the boggart goes through many emotions as the story continues, and many people can relate to these feelings. He feels fear when he's in a new world. He becomes excited when he plays tricks on people, and he feels sad when he is homesick for his Scottish castle. Secondly, the author, Susan Cooper, is very descriptive, and you can visualize everything in the book. There were many scenes of humor when the boggart plays tricks on the Vonik family. This book contains many up to date events, which are easy to relate to, and the book a little easier to understand. All the excitement and related emotions make this book a real page-turner.
This book is highly recommended by me, for various reasons. Firstly, I think that this book is for children of all ages, although I don't think that many people over high school age would enjoy this as much. Either boys or girls would enjoy this book, because the main characters are a boy and a girl. The genre of The Boggart would definitely be fantasy, because of the invisible, trickster creature known as the boggart. On a scale from 1-10 of hardness of reading level, this book would be a 5, because some parts can be hard, while other parts pass by very quickly. If you are looking for a great book to read, and that's easy to read, I would certainly recommend The Boggart by Susan Cooper.
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid fantasy
Comment: Susan Cooper is best known for The Dark is Rising Sequence, a mix of modern fantasy, folklore and Arthurian legend. In "The Boggart" she goes into related but different territory, loosing an ancient Scottish spirit on a modern family. Often cute and very interestingly written.
The boggart has lived in a decayed Scottish castle for centuries, making harmless mischief and shapeshifting into different forms. But when the elderly caretaker dies, the castle is inherited by the Volnik family, modern Canadians who don't know about the boggart. They arrive in Scotland to check out their rather decrepit property; the boggart decides to take a nap inside a rolltop desk... right before the desk is shipped back to Toronto.
When the desk arrives, the boggart makes the most of his situation by wreaking havoc with the electricity, furniture, non-Scottish foods like pizza, and eventually with traffic. His tricks, though not malicious, can quickly spin out of control and become dangerous. But eventually he wants to go home, communicating with Emily and Jess through the computer. Unfortunately, it's not so easy to get a boggart back to Scotland -- especially when the adults believe the boggart is nonexistant, and an obnoxious parapsychologist is sniffing around.
Until relatively recently, few people knew about the mythical boggart (similar to the bogle). Cooper saves this book from being a typical story of a mythical creature wreaking havoc in the real world by using a little-known Celtic spirit; the result is that the boggart is charming and likable, almost childlike in its mischief, delight over electricity, and quickly-forgotten emotions. The best parts of the book are the ones from the boggart's point of view, such as its memory of a Scottish chieftain who died long ago.
"The Boggart" is a slightly less sparkling book than the "Dark is Rising" books, mostly because her prose is plainer and less detailed here. It only really blossoms when we head to Scotland, the sort of ancient atmospheric surroundings that Cooper seems most comfortable writing.
The boggart, the star, is likably mischievous; Cooper manages to make it inhuman at the same time. It never thinks or acts like a human. Emily and Jessup are likable characters, with distinct personalities. Supporting characters like the parents or the actors are well-fleshed out, never acting like idiots if they don't know about the boggart.
A unique mix of folklore and modern technology. This book could have been so very mediocre, but instead it's a funny, intriguing fantasy. Recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Boggart
Comment: When the Volniks inherit an old castle that's falling down, they're all excited and never knew what was going to happen next.
The Boggart is an invisible, playful spirit that has live and played tricks on the inhabitants in Castle Keep for centuries. One day he fell asleep in a desk. He got trapped because someone locked it, and Boggart's can't go through anything that has an iron lock on it. The Volnik's were bringing the desk bach with them to Canada while he was sleeping, so when he wakes up he is across the ocean from his home in Scotland. He explores the house and finds a comfortable spot to sleep in like he had at Castle Keep. He then starts his mischievous ways. Emily and Jessup realize he is there. When the Boggart tels them in Gaelic, through the computer, that he wants to go home (with thanks to their fiend Willie who read it for them), the unusual journey begins to send the Boggart back home.
I really liked this book because it is funny and has a happy ending, even though a great risk had to be taken. I also liked the fact that Jessup really likes computers because I do too. I enjoyed learning the more challenging words the author used like psycokinesis and parapsychology. Psychokinesis is a force in which the mind can move physical objects. Parapsycology is the branh of psycology that investigates telepathy and extrasensory perception.
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Title: The Boggart And The Monster by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0689822863 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: King of Shadows by Susan Cooper ISBN: 068984445X Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree/The Grey King/Greenwitch/The Dark Is Rising/Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0020425651 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Seaward by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0020421907 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 30 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper ISBN: 0689829833 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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