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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780439849586
ISBN: 0439849586
Label: The Chicken House
Manufacturer: The Chicken House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: August 01, 2006
Publisher: The Chicken House
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 398592
Studio: The Chicken House
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Product Description:
Nine-year-old Tom can't catch a break: He's a klutz, his sister Lola pretty much hates his guts, and--and this is a BIG "and"--he just found a ghost camping out in his cellar. Lucky for Tom his grandma's best friend just happens to be the world's foremost ghosthunter. Under her expert tutelage, Tom learns the tools of the trade--which just happen to include buckets of graveyard dirt--and soon finds he has to face down not just the Averagely Spooky Ghost (ASG) in his basement but the Incredibly Revolting Ghost (IRG) in town. All while keeping the nettlesome Lola off his trail....
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Rating:  -
I think it's a very good book because of how it says how to defeat the ghosts the people have to fight. Also, I like how the ghosts look. The book wasn't scary at all and it only took me two days to read it. The book was exciting because you know when they're about to fight the monsters.
I thought it was an excellent book.
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My 6-year old son is certainly capable of reading but never wanted to do so on his own. He was happy browsing the multitude of dinosaur reference books that populate his room. He brought this book home from school and whipped through it in a few days. I was shocked since he never read anything beyond the level of the Magic Tree House books, and not without severe prompting. (This series is rated at reading levels from 4th - 5th grade, by the way.) I immediately purchased the other three books ... Read More
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For those who haven't read Roald Dahl's BFG, please do to see where Cornelia Funk got the ideas for IRGs and ASGs etc. Dahl's is a story of Giants and Funke's is a story of Ghosts. Dahl does a much better job at storytelling than Funke, and that's the crux of the problem. I've read all the stories with my children and found them to be weak on plot and not always believable. The stories tend to rely heavily on the "idea" of ghosts and haunted houses being scary. There's not much of a plot.
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This review's title might not mean anything to you, so, for reference, an ASG is an Averagely Spooky Ghost, and, if you haven't guessed, the IRG is an Incredibly Revolting Ghost. As another book by the German author Cornelia Funke rolls off the presses, people might be lining up out the door, but this is an attempt at a book for younger people. Don't get me wrong, it is a nice book, but hardcore fantasy fans may not enjoy it as much as other books by Cornelia Funke.
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My son has read several Cornelia Funke books and this is by far the worst. I can't imagine a series of books like this. It was very childish, it should be for kids around 5 years old and had a very weak plot, all of which is unlike the other Funke books I and my son have read.
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