The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This story takes place in England at a time when "visitors" (ghosts, spirits, specters, etc.) rule the night. Adolescents are most sensitive to and able to fight the visitors. This is the story of Lockwood, Lucy, and George who staff an all adolescent agency that is on the brink of closing, when they are tasked with investigating the most haunted building in Britain. If they make it through the night, their financial woes will be over. Of course nothing is as it seems. The teens are clever, the story pulls from established folklore, and the story is compelling. The author includes a helpful glossary in the back of the book (something I didn't realize until I was well into the story.) Time spent with this book is time well spent for the middle grade reader.
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