The Screaming Staircase (Paperback)

from beckyhaase

THE SCREAMING STAIRCASE by Jonathan Stroud Lucy, Anthony and George are Lockwood and Company, a trio of children who can see, hear and sense ghosts. When ghosts become malevolent and plentiful in London and only children can defeat them, Lockwood and Company goes to work. Delightfully scary, with...

from jwitt33

My Opinion: When I saw this book on NetGalley I thought to myself, "Hey, this sounds like a book my 8 year old son would like: not too scary, entertaining enough to keep him interested; it's a bit long (440 pages) but we could read a little bit every night, so sure, I'll request it." Little did I...

from krmajor

Britain has a Problem, with a capital P. About fifty years ago, Visitors (or ghosts, as we call them) began to appear and run rampant all over the country. Both independent and government agencies (full of young adults, since they're the most sensitive) then developed to combat the often violent ...

from sszkutak

This book was SO much fun, I absolutely loved it. Over the past few weeks I have been listening to the audiobook in my car, and the reader is stunning. I never wanted to leave the car and I want to listen to the whole series as audiobooks! I received this audiobook a very long time ago but my com...

from passion4reading

Britain has a Problem with a capital P: hostile ghosts have become more numerous for the last fifty or sixty years, and a number of Psychical Investigations Agencies have sprung up as a result, dealing with the hauntings. As only young people can perceive them, children are now on the front line ...