![]() ![]() ![]() With a spine-tingling plot and a fittingly bleak, stormy setting, this chilling book is not for the faint-hearted.įind out more about The Haunting of Aveline Jones on our library Wakelet page. This spooky story is a Halloween treat The Times, Childrens Book of the Week I raced through The Haunting of Aveline Jones. However, as Aveline is drawn deeper into the tales, events take an unsettling turn. Intrigued, Aveline decides to investigate Primrose’s disappearance, with some help from her new friend, Harold. Hoping the stories may provide clues about Primrose’s fate, Aveline investigates, enlisting the help of bookseller Mr Lieberman and his great-nephew Harold. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it belonged to a girl called Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to be seen again. When she finds a book about local ghosts and phantoms in a dusty, second-hand bookshop, Aveline is intrigued to learn that it once belonged to 11-year-old Primrose Penberthy, who mysteriously disappeared from Malmouth thirty years earlier. Despite her fondness for ghost stories, she finds the town a little creepy, particularly when sinister scarecrows appear outside people’s homes in the lead up to Halloween. ![]() Aveline is not looking forward to spending half term with her Aunt Lilian in Malmouth, a windswept village on the Cornish coast. ![]()
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