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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... heard the thread of a laugh , from the thing in the boat that he could not see . A very ancient , mis- chievous thing , solitary and sly , born of a magic as old as the rocks and the waves . A thing that had lived in Castle Keep for all ...
... heard the thread of a laugh , from the thing in the boat that he could not see . A very ancient , mis- chievous thing , solitary and sly , born of a magic as old as the rocks and the waves . A thing that had lived in Castle Keep for all ...
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... heard a bicycle bell ringing from outside the shop door , where six bicycles bought by his father - also secondhand - stood waiting in a patient row for athletic tourists to come and rent them . He ran hopefully outside — and was ...
... heard a bicycle bell ringing from outside the shop door , where six bicycles bought by his father - also secondhand - stood waiting in a patient row for athletic tourists to come and rent them . He ran hopefully outside — and was ...
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... heard something invisible squeaking like a mouse in his ear . Instead of crying , he had laughed . It was the first laugh of his life . Thus he had grown up to become a man who enjoyed practical jokes even when he himself was the object ...
... heard something invisible squeaking like a mouse in his ear . Instead of crying , he had laughed . It was the first laugh of his life . Thus he had grown up to become a man who enjoyed practical jokes even when he himself was the object ...
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Susan Cooper. walking home from the school bus , lifted his head and heard a faint murmur of the howling carried on the breeze . But Fergus was inside a room with ancient stone walls two feet thick , and the sound was not dis- tinct ...
Susan Cooper. walking home from the school bus , lifted his head and heard a faint murmur of the howling carried on the breeze . But Fergus was inside a room with ancient stone walls two feet thick , and the sound was not dis- tinct ...
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... heard through their sleep , echoing over the water from the castle of the MacDevon , the plaintive wail of a single bagpipe , the creaking of a cart , the slow muffled shuffling of many feet , and the unending steady beat of a drum ...
... heard through their sleep , echoing over the water from the castle of the MacDevon , the plaintive wail of a single bagpipe , the creaking of a cart , the slow muffled shuffling of many feet , and the unending steady beat of a drum ...
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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