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Beware! This House is Haunted

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BfK No. 98 - May 1996

Cover Story
Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.

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Beware! This House is Haunted

Lance Salway
(Scholastic Hippo)
978-0590135993, RRP £2.99, Paperback
8-10 Junior/Middle
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In a rain-sodden holiday cottage in Cornwall, two sets of offspring, brought together by a re-marriage, spar against each other until a series of threatening scrawls from beyond the grave unite them in dread. Eventually they confront the ghost, a malicious child still angry half a century after her death in a cycling accident. The living children eventually humanise her, but go a step too far in inviting the ghost's living siblings to a tea party. Slick shifts of pace and atmosphere, and a realistic backdrop to the supernatural theme, provide an entertaining and suspenseful read.

Reviewer: 
George Hunt
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