The BoggartSimon and Schuster, 12.12.2001 г. - 208 страници In a tumbledown castle in the Western Highlands of Scotland lives the Boggart. He is invisible -- an ancient mischievous spirit, solitary and sly, born of a magic as old as the rocks and the waves. He has lived in Castle Keep for centuries, playing tricks on the owners. But the last Scottish owner has died and left the castle to his great-nephew Robert Volnik of Toronto, Canada. The Volnik family -- including Emily and her nine-year-old computer genius brother Jessup -- visit Castle Keep, and when they return to Toronto, they unwittingly take the Boggart with them. The astonishments, delight, and horrors that invade their lives with the arrival of the Boggart fill this swiftly moving story. The collision of modern techology and the Old Magic brings perils nobody could have imagined -- and, in the end, an amazing and touching solution to the problem of the Boggart who has found himself on the wrong side of the ocean. Sometimes extremely funny, sometimes wildly scary,and always totally absorbing, this remarkable story -- brilliantly imagined and beautifully written -- marks the return of the Newbery Award winner Susan Cooper to the field of novels for young readers. An outstanding achievement, The Boggart will work its special magic on all who read it. |
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... Tommy could hear the slow creaking of the oarlocks , and see the white hair of the lean old man bent over the oars . His father said the MacDevon was one hundred years old , but Tommy had never had the courage to ask if it were true ...
... Tommy could hear the slow creaking of the oarlocks , and see the white hair of the lean old man bent over the oars . His father said the MacDevon was one hundred years old , but Tommy had never had the courage to ask if it were true ...
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... Tommy's mother struggled to fill all at once the jobs of grocer , bookseller , fruiterer , postmistress and occasionally - if Tommy went fishing - fishmonger . She used her son as delivery boy , though he preferred the fishing . Tommy ...
... Tommy's mother struggled to fill all at once the jobs of grocer , bookseller , fruiterer , postmistress and occasionally - if Tommy went fishing - fishmonger . She used her son as delivery boy , though he preferred the fishing . Tommy ...
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... TOMMY'S MOTHER weighed out the apples , and put them in the MacDevon's basket . She frowned at the keys of her cash register , as she carefully punched in the prices of apples , bread , oatmeal , milk , and so she failed to see one of ...
... TOMMY'S MOTHER weighed out the apples , and put them in the MacDevon's basket . She frowned at the keys of her cash register , as she carefully punched in the prices of apples , bread , oatmeal , milk , and so she failed to see one of ...
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Susan Cooper. the fecklessness of Tommy's father , Angus Cameron , who as usual was away somewhere chasing a story . He was the Argyll correspondent for several Glasgow and London newspapers . By the ... Tommy's father, Angus Cameron, ...
Susan Cooper. the fecklessness of Tommy's father , Angus Cameron , who as usual was away somewhere chasing a story . He was the Argyll correspondent for several Glasgow and London newspapers . By the ... Tommy's father, Angus Cameron, ...
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... Tommy for rescuing the flying apple , he felt cheerful and sprightly , ready to find a heap of new ways to turn the MacDevon's life upside down . He went to his own private place in the castle , a space between two blocks of stone high ...
... Tommy for rescuing the flying apple , he felt cheerful and sprightly , ready to find a heap of new ways to turn the MacDevon's life upside down . He went to his own private place in the castle , a space between two blocks of stone high ...
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Aunt Jen Barry Barry's bedroom began Black Hole blue flame Boggart flittered Cailleach Bheur called Castle Keep chair Chervil Chris Cymbeline dark desk disc door Emily and Jessup Emily thought Emily's eyes face felt Fergus filled flying furniture Gang of Five grey hair Halloween hand head heard hockey hockey puck IARRAIDH DOL ice cream inside Jess Jessup's room keyboard kitchen knew light light board loch Loch Linnhe looked MacDevon Maconochie Maggie Maggie's magic mother never night Okay once opened paused play Polly Port Appin puck puter Robert rock rolltop desk Samhain Scotland Scottish screen seemed sleep smile sound spaceship staring Stigmore stood strange suddenly talk theater There's things Tommy Cameron Tommy's took Toronto tricks turned vanilla ice voice Volnik watched Willie window Yung Hee