Amelia's Reviews > The Great Ghost Rescue

We stayed up late finishing this book last night, and I'm tempted to throw over Percy Jackson in favor of reading Eva Ibbotson's entire oeuvre. She has such a clear voice and a charming, gentle sense of humor... a decidedly pre-21st-century sense of humor, apparently, because I noticed it more than the kids did.

This story is about a family of ghosts who've been modernized out of their nice, moldering home, and are rescued by a boy, who then has to go in and rescue them again. The ending is honestly pretty perfect.

Once again, I find the older children's books are better for reading aloud than most of the more recent stuff, in terms of both sentence structure and chapter length, even if the plots are sometimes a little slower.