Book description
Quagmire Castle is the much-loved, but totally dilapidated, home to a
motley cast of humans and ghosts. When it comes to saving the Castle
from demolition at the hands of the the gruesome bank manager, Gordon
Grabbit, Aunt Tabitha's solution is to start knitting. Fortunately, her
niece and nephew, Emily and Jack, are determined to preserve their
beloved home. Meanwhile, upstairs in the attic, the whist-playing
ghosts, Dudley and Delicia (together with their pet monkey, Powderball),
can smell trouble, too. Soon, it's all hands to the pump (even if some
of those hands are see-through) in an effort to save Quagmire Castle.
And nobody could ever have predicted the chaos and hilarity that will
ensue! This is a laugh-a-minute action adventure with as madcap a cast
of characters as you're ever likely to meet. Another winner from the
highly-acclaimed author of Something Slimy on Primrose Drive - which
sold out in hardback virtually upon publication. Karen Wallace is an
award-winning author of children's books. Her first novel for older
readers, Raspberries on the Yangtze (Simon & Schuster) was
shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The first in her
series for younger readers, The Crunchbone Castle Chronicles, published
by A&C Black, was selected for the Summer Reading Challenge in 2006.
The Goosepimple Bay Sagas was a World Book Day recommended read in 2008
and Li Fu's Great Aim was chosen for the recent Boys into Books
promotion.
