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Araminta Spookie 5: Ghostsitters | 
| Author: Angie Sage
Creator: Jimmy Pickering
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 374116
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0061449229
EAN: 9780061449222
ASIN: 0061449229
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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p When Aunt Tabby and Uncle Drac head off to Transylvania, Araminta is upset#8212;they're going to be away on her birthday. However, when it turns out that her almost-grown-up cousin, Mathilda, will be babysitting, it seems things couldn't get any better. But Mathilda's brought along trouble: two rowdy teenage ghosts, Ned and Jed, who listen to no one. It's a disaster! Can the girls figure out a way to get Ned and Jed out of the house for good? /p
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 Araminta's birthday and a pair of naughty poltergeists December 17, 2008
Araminta's birthday week offers tons of surprises, both good and bad. Aunt Tabby has won a free trip for four to Transylvania to explore the caves of the giant bats. How exciting! The bad news: Aunt Tabby and Uncle Drac are taking Araminta's best friend Wanda's parents with them, and Araminta will have to stay home. On second thought, maybe that's not such bad news after all. She can have a birthday party with ghosts. Until Aunt Tabby reveals the really bad news: Great-aunt Emilene has agreed to babysit.br /br /Araminta can't believe it. Great-aunt Emilene? She'd rather be babysat by frogs or bats or even ghosts. And when Great-aunt Emilene fails to show, there's no relief. Aunt Tabby simply hijacks the hearse that Great-aunt Emilene sent to deliver her no-show message and takes off to collect Nurse Beryl Watkins, a sharp-tongued martinet who makes Great-aunt Emilene look like a pussy cat.br /br /Aunt Tabby and Uncle Drac take off, and Araminta and Wanda endure a dreadful night with Nurse Watkins, eating parsnip soup and going to bed early. But in the morning, there's a lovely surprise. Araminta's Cousin Mathilda, with her cool black coat and even cooler black hat with dead things pinned to it, arrives to take over babysitting responsibilities. How awesome! Except that Cousin Mathilda doesn't come alone. She brings along a pair of naughty poltergeists, Ned and Jed, who delight in throwing, stomping on and breaking things --- especially Araminta's very favorite onion and cheese chips, which crumble with a lovely crunchy sound. Pretty soon, Araminta and Wanda are spending hours cleaning up after the poltergeists, while Mathilda barricades herself in her room all night and sleeps until noon.br /br /The next day, things just get worse. Mathilda and even Wanda (that traitor!) take off and go shopping, leaving Araminta alone with two terrible ghosts. What kind of birthday is this? When Ned and Jed torment her old friend Sir Horace (old as in very old, as in 500 years old) and he threatens to leave Spookie House, she feels like she's lost her last best friend. And maybe she has. This hasn't been much of a birthday. Can she figure out a way to restore Sir Horace's dignity, put Ned and Jed in their place, and give herself a wonderful birthday celebration after all? Well, she's Araminta Spookie, isn't she? She can always come up with a plan! The question is, will it all work out the way she thinks it will?br /br /Araminta Spookie returns in this fifth installment of her adventures, bringing the same surprises, quirkiness and spookiness that readers have come to expect. GHOSTSITTERS is another fast-paced effort from Angie Sage, full of ghosts and endless fun.
 Dress up ghosts November 25, 2008
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Reviewed by Madeline McElroy (age 7.5) for Reader Views (11/08) br /br /This is a laughable and odd story about a family living in a haunted house. If I could give 500 stars to this book, I would!br /br /My favorite characters are Sir Horace, Uncle Drac, Araminta, Mathadilla, and Ned and Jed.br /br /The funniest thing in the book is when Ned or Jed say something like "Ned or was it Jed?" It is really odd that Araminta likes hats that have dead mice and lizards and bats and toads and frogs on them. I also think it's weird that a ghost would dress up in a night costume! And I love the part when Araminta was hugging her Uncle Drac when he came back home, it was sweet.br /br /I think boys and girls would enjoy "Ghostsitters (Araminta Spookie Book 5)" by Angie Sage.br /br /
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