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“Ruth's delightful black-and-white drawings add atmosphere and interest. If historical mystery fans are not quite up for Philip Pullman's Ruby in the Smoke (Knopf, 1987) or Eleanor Updale's Montmorency (Scholastic, 2004), this book could be a good way to work up to them.†―School Library Journal“Deliciously elaborate… The sights, sounds and stenches of 19th-century London are palpable even without the moody black-and-white illustrations.†―Kirkus Reviews“A rollicking good historical mystery, written in Dickens'style and illustrated with appealing line drawings, which include a subtle tip of the hat to a more contemporary London that a few YA readers may catch.†―Booklist“A charming and gripping tale...Buzbee creates solid characters (and certainly has fun naming them, as did Dickens) and an authentic flavor of Dickensian London, enhanced by Ruth's striking and evocative b&w drawings...while addressing issues of feminism, the search for identity, and child abuse.†―Publishers Weekly“[A] seriously good book...Buzbee draws a realistic vivid picture of 19th century London and manages to capture the "feel" of a Dickens book...The importance of the written word, the printed word, and the authors behind them shines through in this novel.†―Goddess Librarian (goddesslibrarian.blogspot.com)“The themes of valuing friendship, managing adults who have lost their priorities, and connecting people through stories will appeal to kids who have found their own magic in the library.†―BCCB on Steinbeck's Ghost“The story remains an intriguing introduction/companion to Steinbeck's works and imaginatively conveys the power of literature to transport people to another time and place.†―Publishers Weekly on Steinbeck's Ghost“Buzbee's love for literature and libraries is infectious and, for those similarly inclined, deeply satisfying.†―Booklist on Steinbeck's Ghost“Magical realism with Steinbeck's ghost and a discerning young hero.†―Kirkus on Steinbeck's Ghost
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About the Author
LEWIS BUZBEE is the author of Steinbeck's Ghost and several books for adults, including The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. A former bookseller, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.Greg Ruth lives and works in Western Massachusetts with his wife, Jen, and two boys, Emmett and Nathaniel, where he crafts graphic novels, children's picture books, including Coming Home.
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Product details
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Square Fish; Reprint edition (November 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312641230
ISBN-13: 978-0312641238
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
22 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,457,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The Pickel family owns a print shop and has customers/friends with the likes of Charles Dickens. The daughter of the house, Meg, is adventurous and daring. She is strong willed and tries to find her missing older brother. While traveling at night through London she unexpectedly meets Charles Dickens. They make a pact that they will save Meg's brother.I felt different enjoyment from this book then Buzbee's Steinbeck Ghost. Instead of flowing into each book Steinbeck wrote this one was a whole new mystery featuring Dickens and mentions of his stories. Meg and Dickens are interesting partners. Dickens comes across very fun loving which if you have seen real photos of Dickens you would not think that of him because I have not seen one where he smiles.This book tells about the dark side of the times for children who worked in labor houses like Dickens did once as a child. So book has a little grittiness to it that makes some it hard to enjoy even though it may be based on facts. Dickens does make it laughable at times by dress in odd suits and meeting odd souls. Good read for Dickens lovers.
This is a great series for young adults that is written by a local, Bay Area author. A teacher of mine heard about this author while at a Steinbeck conference from another teacher. We bought the series for the campus library. We cannot keep it on the shelves. The students really enjoy it.
I greatly enjoyed being swept away into the London of the Dickens era. While the phony seance near the beginning of The Haunting of Charles Dickens may have hinted at ghosts and paranormal, it soon becomes apparent it is trickery and unscrupulous business practies that Meg and Mr. Dickens must overcome. Meg, who had gone out in search of her lost brother, Orion, was drawn to the strange green glow emanating from skylights of an empty mansion. There she comes across her old family friend, Charles Dickens, who is also looking in on the seance. Before their secretive viewing of the seance is over, Meg glimpses a young man she believes to be her brother who has been missing for six months. This lifts her heart and resolve to find her brother. In tracking Orion through old London, Meg comes across many signs he left behind. Her sleuthing and work in their family's printing shop leads her to seek more for herself when she's grown, rather than just marriage into a suitable family.The setting of Dickens era London was vivid for me, including travel by foot and carriage complete with the clop of horses's hooves on cobblestones. The jingle of the horses's harnesses, the squeeking of the buggies and carts, and the smell of a soot permeated city all add to the intensity of the scenes. The sights, smells and decay of old London remind the reader of that manufacturing era.The haunting in this story comes about three ways: The first apparent haunting is the loss parents experience for their "lost" children who've been forced into labor in those 'underground' sweatshops. The haunting that effects Charles Dickens reflects his state of mind and emotions rather than being about ghosts. Meg is haunted by the loss of her older brother, Orion, yet she refuses to believe he is dead. The only ghosts turn out to be the children who are conscripted and forced to work under horrid conditions. They are the "living" ghosts who've been whisked away.Through the way author Lewis Buzbee wove some of the Dickens story titles and characters into this plot and setting, he offers teases which may tempt young readers to explore reading more about the Dickens era. I recommend 'top hats doffed' for Buzbee for reopening this world of reading about the Dickens era for readers, young and old.
I'm currently teaching seventh- and eighth-graders at a classical school where the students spend six years reading the great works of literature. Since these two age groups study Greco-Roman and medieval literature, respectively, for homework, they are always looking for something else to read for "fun." At the beginning of the year, the girls were lamenting the fact that when they went to the bookstores, all they could find was "vampire stuff." They then asked, "Isn't there anything good to read?" I've prepared a list for them, but certainly I will be adding *The Haunting of Charles Dickens* to it. In fact, one of the girls has already asked to borrow my copy when I'm done.Set in Victorian England, the story centers on a girl whose older brother has gone missing. The father of the family runs a print shop which is frequented by Charles Dickens who often comes in to buy high quality paper, so young Meg does know the Great Man. Still, she is nonetheless startled to discover Mr. Dickens crawling about on a nearby roof peering downward at a séance that is taking place in the upper room of one of the houses. (Meg is out there trying to figure out where her brother has gone.) The two become partners in detection as they begin a quest, with the permission of Meg's father, to find Orion, the missing brother.Buzbee's prose is fabulous! The story moves apace and one is caught up in the characters and the action. One of the more pleasurable aspects of the book is the fact that many of the places and characters that Meg and Dickens encounter along the way have the names that have made appearances in Dickens' books. For example, the seance is being held in Satis House where they eventually find a decaying cake with cobwebs and mice. Being unfamiliar with Dickens' books would not hinder the enjoymnet of this one, but I feel certain that after reading this book, most young readers would certainly undertake to read them, starting with *Great Expectations*, which figures largely in Meg's own reading in Buzbee's book. (Caveat: Buzbee does slip and let it be known who Pip's benefactor actually was.)At the end of the book, there is a three-page appendix entitled "Children and Charles Dickens," which explains the important role that Dickens played in effecting child labor laws and other laws curbing the exploitation of children in the streets of London, which he knew first-hand from his own time on the streets as a boy. It is a good addendum to the book, but it does contain my only complaint about the book, Buzbee's reference to the "ragged" schools of the age as "pitiful." Education was not compulsory in England until 1870, but that did not stop members of the public from reaching out to the street children and providing them with the rudiments of reading and writing with a view toward helping them find decent employment when and how they could. Were they perfect? Far from it. But led by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, they were hardly pitiful. Dickens was invited by those running the street schools to join in the effort, and it is true that he found them wanting in some areas; however, since we know that our own twenty-first century schools have sunk to "creative spelling" and the so-called "reform mathematics," I hardly think we can turn up our noses at folks who were fighting ignorance and want with virtually no resources on the streets of early Victorian London.That aside, however, I do indeed love and highly recommend this novel. More, please, Mr. Buzbee.
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