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Fantasy. Horror. Juvenile Fiction. When Ellie and her family move into Inchwood Manor, Ellie quickly discovers strange things are happening. Who is the mysterious boy at the window? What secrets lie within the abandoned nursery? Who is the woman who haunts Ellie's dreams � and why has she returned to the Manor, after more than a century? Ellie finds herself entangled in a Victorian mystery of ghosts and tunnels and secret documents and discovers that life all those years ago isn't so show more different from the world she knows today... Rob Keeley's first novel for children brings out all the ingredients of the classic ghost story within a recognisable modern world setting. Readers of his short story collections for children will find in Childish Spirits the elements which made his past books such a success strong and contemporary characters, inventive twists on traditional themes, and a winning combination of action, suspense and humour. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Childish Spirits
- Original title
- Childish Spirits
- Original publication date
- 2014-07-28
- People/Characters
- Ellie; Edward Fitzberranger (a ghost); Miss McKendrick (a ghost); Charlie (Ellie's brother); Judith (Ellie's Mum); Jon (Ellie's Dad) (show all 9); Marcus (Site Manager, Inchwood Manor); Moira (a volunteer at Inchwood Manor); Miss Harvey (former owner of Inchwood Manor)
- Important places
- Inchwood Manor, England, UK
- Quotations
- Even for a ghost, you do a lot of moaning.
Why should I have to go, after all this time?
He'll be gone from here before another night has passed.
Oh, don't worry about me. You still have your life...enjoy it. I'm just part of history...I died a long time ago.
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- Genre
- Fiction and Literature
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 2
