Interest Age Teen Reading Age 8+. A chilling and brilliant horror story, Ghosting tells how the make-believe of contacting the spirit world becomes horribly real for Sandy and her brother Nat. Taught by their Mum how to ‘talk’ to the dead, Nat and Sandy put on a great double act. Sandy loves the easy way of making money but Nat has doubts. He hates the lying and cheating that it involves. And then they get caught out. The world they thought they created becomes horribly real and sandy and Nat find themselves in extreme danger.
Without exception dyslexia-friendly books published by Barrington Stoke get off to an exciting start and maintain the impetus throughout, with a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter. The plot is clear, the characters appealing and there are plenty of visual clues, as dyslexics like to run a story like a video in their heads.
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Nate and his sister Sandy are fake mediums and don’t believe in the ghosts they pretend to see. That is, until the real ghosts of a serial killer’s victims appear with a message for Sandy. A terrifying horror for teens.
Keith Gray’s debut novel Creepers was published when he was only 24 and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. His subsequent books include Ostrich Boys, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal as well as the Costa Children’s Book Award and has been adapted for the stage; The Last Soldier, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Teen Book Awards; and The Runner, which won the Smarties Silver Medal.
Keith lives with his family in Vienna, Austria, where he co-founded the writer development community Kulturverein: Sunday Writers’ Club.