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1 author picked The Girl, the Ghost and the Lost Name as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

My daughter said that she found this book spooky, but in a good way. She liked the fact that it was about a girl who was already a ghost.

I couldn’t get a huge amount more out of her about the book (she’s nine, and it’s the same when I ask her about what she did at school ☺) but I can say that she took the book everywhere, and tried to read it after lights-out, while getting dressed in the morning, and finished it off while we were at a restaurant having a celebratory family meal.

In summary, she…

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