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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Children's fiction ghost stories Ghost stories Paranormal fiction Fiction Juvenile works Histoires de fantômes Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: | Jonathan Stroud |
ISBN: | 9780857532022 0857532022 9780857532015 0857532014 |
OCLC Number: | 856962538 |
Awards: | Winner of Hampshire Book Award 2015 Winner of We Read Award 2015 Short-listed for Coventry Inspiration Book Awards: Simply the Book Category 2015 Short-listed for North East Book Award 2015 Long-listed for Inky Awards: Silver Inky 2015 Long-listed for Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2014 Winner of Hampshire Book Award 2014 (UK) Winner of We Read 2015 (UK) Short-listed for Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2015 (UK) Short-listed for North East Book Award 2015 (UK) Short-listed for Hampshire Book Award 2015 (UK) Long-listed for Guardian Children's Book Prize 2014 (UK) Long-listed for Inky Awards (Australia) 2015 (UK) |
Description: | 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series Title: | Lockwood & Co, bk. 1. |
Other Titles: | Lockwood & Co. : |
Responsibility: | Jonathan Stroud. |
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"This story will keep you reading late into the night, but you'll want to leave the lights on. Stroud is a genius at inventing an utterly believable world which is very much like ours, but so creepily different. Put The Screaming Staircase on your 'need to read' list." Rick Riordan "A heartily satisfying string of entertaining near-catastrophes, replete with narrow squeaks and spectral howls" Kirkus "The book is genuinely spooky and suspenseful, with appealing characters and great dialogue, and all shot through with Stroud's dry wit." Guardian "Stroud (the Bartimaeus series) shows his customary flair for blending deadpan humor with thrilling action, and the fiery interplay among the three agents of Lockwood & Co. invigorates the story (along with no shortage of creepy moments)." Publishers Weekly "In a world overrun by evil spooks, can Paranormal Detection Agency Lockwood & Co do anything about the ghostly problems besetting London? Suspenseful, supernatural adventure." Metro Read more...