The Inn of Waking Shadows

Karla Brading

Emlyn doesn't believe that his home, the Skirrid Inn, is haunted. But all that changes when his mum gifts him an old servant's bell and he summons the spirit of Fanny Price...

ISBN: 9781785622724

Price: £6.99

Department: KS2 (7-11 yrs), KS3 (11-14 yrs), Children, Children's Fiction

Format: Paperback

Language: English

No. of pages: 226

Reading age: 9-12

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The narrative cleverly dances between life at school and the more mysteriously spooky atmosphere of the inn. Brading keeps us rooting for the hero and his friend by painting an unremittingly cruel picture of Jeffreys. - Sally Owen, Gwales

Blurb

Emlyn has always stood out at school, and living at the Skirrid Inn doesn't help. Other kids live with siblings or pets, but Emlyn shares his home with ghosts! Or so they say. Emlyn doesn't believe the stories that his home is the most haunted inn in Wales - that is, until he rings a servant's bell and accidentally summons Fanny Price. Fanny's presence disturbs some of the Inn's angrier residents, namely Hanging Judge Jeffries, a much older and more powerful ghost who is determined to add Fanny to his collection of feeble spirits.

With flesh-and-blood bullies making his school life miserable, and a ghostly one making his home life down right dangerous, will Emlyn be strong enough to help Fanny move on? And if he does... will he have lost his only friend?

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