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Araminta Spookie 1: My Haunted House | 
| Author: Angie Sage
Creator: Jimmy Pickering
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: $3.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 158471
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0060774835
EAN: 9780060774837
ASIN: 0060774835
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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Product Description
blockquote pThis house is not for sale/p /blockquote pAraminta Spookie lives in a wonderful old haunted house, but her crabby aunt Tabby wants to move. Aunt Tabby is determined to sell their house#8212;Araminta ihas/i to stop her!/p pWith the help of a haunted suit of armor named Sir Horace, a ghost named Edmund, and a lot of imagination, Araminta hatches a plot for an Awful Ambush that is so ghoulish, it just might work!/p
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
Fun read December 4, 2008
This is an enjoyable little book. The cover is really nice and the illustrations are very well done. The story is entertaining and flows along quickly. Any young reader will be happy with this book.
Young Reader October 9, 2007
This book was read by my 7 year old daughter who LOVED it! It was written at a level that was able to catch her attention and keep it, while being a "quick" read. The characters were unique and original. The story was engaging. It has been one of her favorite books. It was nice to know she was reading something that was written with a certain British-flair...torch=flashlight, etc. We also gifted copies of it to friends for Halloween. She looks forward to reading the third and fourth books!
 Highly Recommend from Mother of 9 year old girl September 4, 2007
I found this book last year shortly after it was published. My 9 year old daughter loves to read, but has a penchant for "spooky" or ghost stories, of which most are not the highest quality of literature for this age!! I read the description of this book on Amazon.com and bought it, to see if it was something that my daughter would enjoy, and I wouldn't mind her reading (I'm not a big fan of Junie B. Jones because of the language - so I'm picky!) We read this book together, with my daughter reading it to me. She thoroughly enjoyed it - it satisfied her love of the spooky and creepy; while at the same time, I felt like she was actually being entertained and getting something from the reading! We quickly moved on to Araminta's next book, and are now in the process of finishing Frognapped. I highly recommend this book - I find it engaging, entertaining and enjoyable as both a parent and a book lover attempting to instill a love of reading in my daughter as well.
 Unspectacularly spooky September 2, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Loner Araminta Spookie lives with her aunt Tabby and her uncle Drac in a slightly spooky, many-roomed house with a belligerent boiler. When her aunt becomes fed up with its tempermentality, she decides it is time to sell the house and move. Using her ghost hunting and mischief making skills, a disappointed Araminta causes enough mischief to deter most prospective buyers. But the reaction of the Wizzard family is unexpected (though not by the reader), leaving her surprised and disappointed, but eventually, happy. My Haunted House has above average illustrations, an average plot, and an entirely predictable, enjoyable ending. br /
 bad start into independent reading June 17, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you want your kids to talk in half sentences like a cartoon character, this is the book. If you think reading should help them develop their language skills, look somewhere else. On top of it the story is badly developed and not very creative. It feels more like it was written after a formula: take a castle, two ghosts, one annoying person, one nice weird person and a mainly obnoxious but also adventerous girl as the main character and you might have success. Araminta, the main character, is just a self-important, self-righteous, arrogant. obnoxious character, that otherwise stays flat and certainly is not a role model nor even intrinsically interesting as a character. The book doesn't inspire fantasy/creativity. It felt like the child equivalent of a dime novel. I have read volume one and two, I always like to give an author a second chance, but the second volume was even worse, it was also badly edited with glaring inconsistencies. br /If you want to stimulate your child through reading, look somewhere else, like Astrid Lindgren or Roald Dahl . This is just a bad rip-off from the Harry Potter craze for ghost stories.
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