Dial a Ghost
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (660 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0330398261 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Now Oliver has some spooky allies to help him outwit the wicked Snodde-Brittles 'You'll love this chain-rattling, blood-oozingly hilarious story' - "Daily Telegraph".. 'Frightful and dangerous ghosts!' Fulton has gone to the Dial A Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. 'Get me some ghosts,' said Fulton Snodde-Brittle. The Shriekers are the most violent and sickening sceptres the agency has, but a mix-up means the kind Wilkinson ghosts are sent in their place
After spending most of his 10 years in a London orphanage, Oliver Smith is horrified to discover he is the sole master of a grand old mansion. It's as if one's favorite crazy aunt has dropped by to tell the kind of convoluted and magical story children really want to hear. Of course, if the matron of the orphanage knew that this assistance involved renting bloodthirsty ghosts from the Dial-a-Ghost Agency in hopes of frightening the boy to death, she certainly wouldn't have allowed Oliver out of her sight. Eva Ibbotson has established herself as a true master of her genre with her extraordinary fantasy novels such as Which Witch? and Island of the Aunts. As it turns out, though, there's been a bit of a mix-up at Dial-a-Ghost. Oliver is quite satisfied with his life just as it is, but he soon finds himself ensconced in a spooky, creaky tower bedroom in Helton Hall, under the care of his two cruelly calculating cousins, the Snodde-Brittles. Cousin Fulton and Cousi
Moe811 said Great book for young readers. I am always looking for books for my nephews to read, and this one is one of the best I've found. It will appeal to all of the kids going through Harry Potter withdrawal. Oliver Smith is an orphan living happily in a Home. He suddenly finds out that he has inherited a great estate. Unfortunately, he has two evil cousins who also want the estate. They hire two vile ghosts who like to kill children to haunt the house. Unfortunately, there is a mixup at the agency, and the ghostly Wilkinson family take their place, for the time being anyway.This is a really fun read. There are some illustrations, but the author's descriptions are so . "Adopt-A-Review" according to Maggie. Oliver knew they were coming after him, he just didn't know when. They, of course, being the ghosts. His older cousin Fulton had told him all about them. They were bloodstained, headless, screaming, wailing horrible things. Not all ghosts are horrible though, and when he meets the Wilkinson family, his perspective changes. Oliver was a kind boy. He was an orphan though. He was always very outgoing, so he made a lot of friends at the Home. He lived happily there, until one day when he was whisked off to an enormous thirty-room mansion named Helton Hall. He had inherited the Snoode-Brittle fortune because all of his relatives had di. "Dial-a-Ghost" according to A Customer. Dial-a-Ghost was a great book. I was expecting a book exactly like it because Eva Ibbotson always writes fantastic books. It started out with a family living in their house during the war. A bomb hit their house and they became ghosts. They went to a ghost house where normal people could rent ghosts for their house, to scare or to just live there. The nice ghosts got mixed up with the awful ghosts and disaster began. The awful ghosts went to a nuns church adn the nice ones went to a nasty old mans house who just wanted the ghosts to kill people. I all turned out OK in the end, but you will have to see what happens for yourself. Di