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Summary: Very funny satisfying story!
Review: Oliver knew they were coming after him, he just didn't know when. They, of course, being the ghosts. His older cousin Fulton had told him all about them. They were bloodstained, headless, screaming, wailing horrible things. Not all ghosts are horrible though, and when he meets the Wilkinson family, his perspective changes.
Oliver was a kind boy. He was an orphan though. He was always very outgoing, so he made a lot of friends at the Home. He lived happily there, until one day when he was whisked off to an enormous thirty-room mansion named Helton Hall. He had inherited the Snoode-Brittle fortune because all of his relatives had died. His cousin Fulton was next in line to inherit the money, so Fulton began plotting against Oliver.
Fulton made his way to the adoption center, called Adopt-A-Ghost, because he was planning to scare Oliver to death. He wanted the meanest, slimiest, biggest, scariest ghosts to haunt the mansion imaginable.
Now the Adopt-A-Ghost agency had a big problem. They had the meanest, slimiest, biggest, scariest ghosts that they had to find a home for. The Shriekers. Time was running out, and if they didn't hurry up, the ghosts would get impatient and eat them alive! It was a miracle from heaven to the ladies running the agency when Fulton Snoode-Brittle walked in the door and offered to give the Shriekers a home. There was only one problem left that the ladies were unaware of. Their delivery boy was colorblind. He wasn't an extreme case, but he couldn't tell red and green apart, so he accidentally gave the Wilkinson's the directions to the Helton Hall Mansion, and the Shreikers, the directions to a nun's sanctuary where the Wilkinson's were supposed to live.
When the Wilkinson's finally got to Helton Hall, they met a young boy named Oliver. Oliver wasn't scared the least bit, although he had been dreading meeting the ghosts, because he assumed they were there to kill him. Rumor got to Fulton that after Fulton left some three days before to flee from the ghosts, that Oliver went mad and drowned himself in the lake behind Helton Hall. Fulton was overjoyed! The inheritance was his! When he made his way to the house though, cautious of the ghosts, the Wilkinson's teamed up with Oliver and turned Fulton out of the house. They wrote a letter to Oliver's guardian, explaining what had happened. He showed up a week later, and together they turned half of the mansion into a sanctuary for ghosts and the other half into a home for all of Oliver's orphaned friends. He lived happily from then on.
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Summary: A Great Funny Experience!
Review: Eva Ibbotson is one of my favorite authors, and out of all of them this is one of my favorites. I had laughs, gasps, and wide eyes of surprise on my face while I was reading it.
I thought the concepts were neet. The family is bombed and they all die, but one of them doesn't become a ghost. Some people can see ghosts and some can't. The personality of the person continues in the ghost. All of these and more are in the book.
Out of all of it, the ending was the best part. Like in most of Ibbotson's books, she wraps the story up and ends all the questions and cliff hangers.
It was written in a very true reolistic way, even though some things aren't proven to be true. That's another thing I liked about it.
The reason I give it four stars, not five, is because the twists are very good at the end, but in a few places the story gets a little boring in the middle of a chapter. Even so, this is one of her best books.
I would reccomend all of her books to you if you liked this one, especially 'Which Which' and 'The Great Ghost Rescue.'
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Summary: Dial - A Ghost
Review: Dial - A - Ghost is about a kid called Oliver and he gets a mansion. His Uncle Fulton and Aunt Frieda want the mansion. They try to kill him, so they go to the Dial - A- Ghost Agency to get the worst ghosts there to adopt.Their plan backfires and they get the nicest ghosts. Oliver becomes friends with them, but his Uncle and Aunt think he is being tortured. When his Uncle and Aunt find out they try to kill the ghosts and then get the bad ghosts they wanted. I hope you read this great book! Instead of being a scary ghost story, it's funny!
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Summary: Haunting fun
Review: Dial - a - Gost in a wonderful and gostly tale . Oliver is the kind of person you would want as a friend or a gost would want as a friend . The charictors are color full and the plot is amusing !
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Summary: Five Stars!
Review: Dial-A-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson is one of the best books I have ever read! I really enjoyed this book because the characters are so well portrayed. The author makes it seem as if you are with these ghosts as all of these amazing things happen to them throughout the book. She writes it with such detail and passion.
It is about a family called the Wilkinsons who suddenly become ghosts when a bomb is dropped on their house in England during World War II. They then come upon the ghost of a lost little girl who cannot remember who she is or what happened to her. The Wilkinsons adopt her and try to find a home for themselves. Later, the little girl, while wandering through the streets of London, came upon an agency that finds homes for ghosts.
The Shriekers are a couple who died very gruesome deaths after they suffered a great loss. They are ghosts who need a home too, but they hate children with a passion. There is nothing that they won't do to little children. The Wilkinsons and the Shriekers are offered different homes but something happens that is unexpected and changes the lives of many people and ghosts, alike.
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Summary: Book Review for Dail-A-Ghost
Review: Dial-A-Ghost is definetly one of the best books I have ever read. I first chose it because I have read and enjoyed many books that the author, Eva Ibbotson, has written previously. Dial-A-Ghost is about a little orphan child name Oliver Smith who has spent ten years in an orphanage after his parents died. Unexpectedly, he inherits Helton Hall. There, the evil Snodde-Brittles, Cousin Fulton and Frieda, are supposed to take care of him. However, the Snodde-Brittles are next in line to inherit Helton Hall if anything happens to Oliver. With this in mind, they call the agency, Dial-A-Ghost, and order two evil ghosts who are supposed to scare Oliver to death. While this is happening, a group of nuns order a family of nice ghosts to live in a extra house that they have. Their files get mixed up and the nuns are left with the terrible hate filled ghosts, and the Snodde-Brittles are given the wonderfully nice family. The ghosts were killed in World War One and treat Oliver as if they were their real son and brother. Soon, the Snodde-Brittles find out about the mistake in ghosts and demand that the mistake is fixed. However, Oliver is able to break the hard shell of the dead, hateful couple and comes to the core of their rage against kids. Together, they scare off the Snodde-Brittles.
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Summary: Dial-a-Ghost
Review: Dial-a-Ghost was a great book. I was expecting a book exactly like it because Eva Ibbotson always writes fantastic books. It started out with a family living in their house during the war. A bomb hit their house and they became ghosts. They went to a ghost house where normal people could rent ghosts for their house, to scare or to just live there. The nice ghosts got mixed up with the awful ghosts and disaster began. The awful ghosts went to a nuns church adn the nice ones went to a nasty old mans house who just wanted the ghosts to kill people. I all turned out OK in the end, but you will have to see what happens for yourself.
Dial-a-Ghost was just everything I thought it would be. Fun, funny, entertaining, and exciting. This book had me reading in the car for hours in a row until I finished it. I just could not put it down. If you have read the Secret of PLatform 13 then I just know you will love this book. Both of the books are similar in the way that they have fun and crazy characters adn are just fun reads. Eva Ibbotson always succeedsin writing the books that really capture my attention and I hope that you will feel the same way after reading just a couple of her books. Written By: C.C.
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Summary: A delightful, hilarious new novel from Eva Ibbotson.
Review: Helton Hall is the haunting, grandiose mansion that has been in the Snodde Brittle family for generations. Now, hoewever, a little boy with the last name Smith is the rightful owner -- not Fulton Snodde Brittle, who is enraged at this. Oliver Smith is an orphan, and has roots to the Snodde Brittles. Fulton and his wife, Frieda, will do anything to keep Oliver from owning it -- they plan on using the Shriekers, horrifying ghosts who wear meat for jewelry and love strangling children in their sleep, to scare away Oliver for good. But one family of ghosts who are nice won't let that happen. They're determined to protect Helton Hall's rightful owner -- no matter what horrors lurk inside the mansion. Dial-A-Ghost is the fourth hilarious and witty novel by Eva Ibbotson. I enjoyed it even more than Which Witch?, an award-winning and charming fantasy novel Harry Potter fans will enjoy. Readers are going to adore this exciting new ghost story.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I adore this as well as the much as I do the other Ibbotson's. The story of a family of ghosts who help a little boy defeat his evil cousins who would have him dead so that they might own a giant estate that he inherited. A great book with a wonderful story and sweetness all its own.
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Summary: Great book for young readers
Review: I am always looking for books for my nephews to read, and this one is one of the best I've found. It will appeal to all of the kids going through Harry Potter withdrawal. Oliver Smith is an orphan living happily in a Home. He suddenly finds out that he has inherited a great estate. Unfortunately, he has two evil cousins who also want the estate. They hire two vile ghosts who like to kill children to haunt the house. Unfortunately, there is a mixup at the agency, and the ghostly Wilkinson family take their place, for the time being anyway. This is a really fun read. There are some illustrations, but the author's descriptions are so vivid they are practically unecessary. My nephew loved this book.
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