Johnny and the Dead

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Terry Pratchett, Mark Beech: Johnny and the Dead (2018, Penguin Random House)

240 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2018 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-552-57677-2
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3 stars (3 reviews)

After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.

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3 stars

Audiobook with nephew.
Not as compelling as only you can save mankind, but does well in terms of being a kids book that takes seriously that kids can understand big ideas.
Now quite dated, feels very 1990s with some awful clangers re: race/sex/sexuality.
The community meeting scene with the squash balls was epic on the audiobook.

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Subjects

  • Ghosts, fiction
  • Cemeteries, fiction
  • England, fiction
  • Humorous stories
  • Children's fiction