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The Great Ghost Rescue

By: Eva Ibbotson
Narrated by: John Sessions
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 As a bloodcurlingly fearsome ghost, Humphrey the Horrible is a failure. He's not horrible at all. Instead of being ghastly and skeletal, he's pink and fluffy, like a summer cloud. He longs to be like his brother, who's a Screaming Skull, or his father, who has stumps for legs and a sword through his chest...or even his cousins who are like vampire bats. Poor Humphrey, though, can't scare anyone.

But when the ghosts are in danger, it's clever Humphrey who comes up with a rescue plan.

©2008 Eva Ibbotson (P)2008 Macmillan Digital Audio Fantasy Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Humorous Fiction Literature & Fiction Multi-generational Family Scary Stories Scary Fiction Comedy Ghost Haunted

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Critic reviews

"The book still has considerable appeal...because of the deliciously consistent macabre humor and the entertaining ensemble of ghosts." (School Library Journal)
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What can I say, it's so delightfully ghoulish and sweet, I never get tired of it.

Cursed be thy name.

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