Sonderbooks Book Review of Dial-a-Ghost

****Dial-a-Ghost*

by Eva Ibbotson

Reviewed October 10, 2001.
Dutton Children’s Books. 2001. Available at Sembach Library (JF IBB).

This one’s light-hearted and fun. A poor orphan boy is sent to live with fiendish relatives. When they arrange with a Dial-a-Ghost agency to have ghosts come and live in the old house, hoping to scare him to death, the agency accidentally sends a sweet family of ghosts, killed when a bomb fell on their house in World War II. Okay, maybe that doesn’t sound light-hearted, but, trust me, it is. First, we follow the kind Wilkinson ghosts in their efforts to find a suitable home. We learn about the kind ladies who start the agency to help ghosts looking for a home. When the Wilkinsons come to live with the little boy and become his dear friends, we cheer them on. This is a fun story.

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***Dial-a-Ghost

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****Dial-a-Ghost*