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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of history, imagination, and the challenge of living with a ghost who won't take hints
What this book is about
Lively's 1973 Carnegie Medal-winning children's novel follows James Harrison, whose family moves to an old cottage in Oxfordshire, where he is haunted by the ghost of Thomas Kempe, an Elizabethan sorcerer who insists on being taken seriously. Warm and funny. For all ages.
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