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Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

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Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell

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By Chris Riddell

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Full of adventure and humour, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse is the beautifully illustrated winner of the Costa Award – presented here in a gorgeous hardcover. From Chris Riddell, author of the Ottoline series, it is perfect for fans of Howl’s Moving Castle and Netflix’s Wednesday.

Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Lord Goth believes that children should be heard and not seen, so Ada has to wear large clumpy boots so that he can always hear her coming. This makes it hard for her to make friends and, if she’s honest, she’s rather lonely.

Then one day William and Emily Cabbage come to stay at the house, and together with a ghostly mouse called Ishmael they and Ada begin to unravel a dastardly plot that Maltravers, the mysterious indoor gamekeeper, is hatching. Ada and her friends must work together to foil Maltravers before it’s too late!

Though they can be enjoyed in any order, continue this deliciously dark series with Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death and Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright.

Reviews

25 Jan 2024

It was a enjoyable book . The book interested me because it was SPOOKY .I would recommend this book to someone else .

28 Dec 2023

creepy

13 Sep 2023

It was a fun and mysterious book

11 Sep 2023

Animals can be very precious but sometimes people can harm them and kill them. But to the animal families can be very sad

05 Sep 2023

I like Ada. It is a amazing book and I would reccomend it too girls 7 and a half-8.

22 Aug 2023

It was quite spooky and I would recommend it to anyone else who, like me loves mystery and a slight pinch of horror

11 Aug 2023

Very good book! I enjoyed reading this! I definitely recommend

10 Aug 2023

It was quite odd but I still really liked it

29 Jul 2023

I like that the author put real places into the book

25 Jul 2023

It has a good structure and hooked me up when I was reading it

23 Jul 2023

I really enjoyed this book because it’s magical and I enjoyed the characters. My favourite character is Maltravers.

20 Jul 2023

This was really good, my mum enjoyed it too. I caught her trying to read it when I came home from school.

19 Jul 2023

It was great

18 Jul 2023

Love it so much it got drama and it got good adventure

10 Jul 2023

nice and relaxing

10 Sep 2022

I really enjoyed this book. I liked all the nice ghosts

02 Sep 2022

I was really fun and interesting with great imagination and illustrations of monsters,ghosts and people

26 Aug 2022

I really enjoyed reading Goth Girl and the ghost of a Mouse, it is the first goth girl i've read and i'm sure there is lots more to come!

It is about a girl called Ada Goth who lives in Ghastly - Gorm Hall with her Father and all the maids and butlers and so on. Her mother was a tightrope walker but died when Ada was little.

After a while she becomes friends with Emily and William who run the attic club ( A club including Emily, William ) which Ada soon becomes a part of.

But can they find out what Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper is up to and put a stop to it!

A brilliant story but i gave it 4 stars because there was one part i didn't understand.

23 Aug 2022

I like Lucy Borgia

21 Aug 2022

It was spooky and I liked the mouse ghost. I would recommend this if you like Amelia Fang and Worst Witch books.

14 Aug 2022

This is an easy and enjoyable read which introduces us to Ada Goth and her adventures at her home; Ghastly Ghorm-Hall. The story is packed full of clever literary references and beautiful and witty illustrations also by the author Chris Riddell.

12 Aug 2022

My favourite character in this book was goth girl

I would definitely recommend this book to someone who has a interest in goth and likes adventure books with a little bit of drama

11 Aug 2022

It a amazing you won't believe what your eyes are reading. What Are You Waiting For?! The book is waiting for eyes to read it so hurry up and read the book you won't even think your reading a real book this book has so much twisters. You will have a great time reading it you won't regret getting it from the library or just reading on this website.

Enjoy reading the book have a great time thank you for reading my review and bye.

07 Aug 2022

I really liked this book because it shows Dr Seuss’s saying ‘A person is a person no matter how small.’

30 Jul 2022

I like Emily cabbage because she is really creative and is really good at art and drawing. I thought it was packed with adventure and mystery but it was also really imaginative.

14 Jul 2022

i love it it is wonderfull

20 Feb 2022

I would highly recommend this book it is possibly my favourite my favourite character was Ada because she is such an intelligent woman it made me a bit upset when I found out out that her mum died

16 Nov 2021

This was lent to me by my teacher and I thought it was amazing. I love fantasy stories and it was beautiful.

12 Sep 2021

cool
RATING:4.1 out of 5

11 Sep 2021

A childhood favourite , with delicious illustrations!! Would recommend to 7+

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