Product Description

Aunt Tabby and Uncle Drac are heading off to Transylvania on Araminta's birthday—without Araminta. To make matters worse, Araminta will have a babysitter. When that sitter turns out to be Araminta's supercool cousin, Mathilda, things start to look up—except Mathilda shows up with two rowdy ghosts who destroy the house and ignore all the rules. Can Araminta come up with a Plan to get rid of these two bad ghosts once and for all?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #307772 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-01
• Released on: 2009-08-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780061449253
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author

Angie Sage was born in London and grew up in the Thames Valley, London, and Kent. She now lives in Somerset in a very old house that has a secret tunnel below it. The first four books in the Septimus Heap series are international bestsellers. She is also the author of the Araminta Spookie series.

Customer Reviews

Dress up ghosts
Reviewed by Madeline McElroy (age 7.5) for Reader Views (11/08)

This is a laughable and odd story about a family living in a haunted house. If I could give 500 stars to this book, I would!

My favorite characters are Sir Horace, Uncle Drac, Araminta, Mathadilla, and Ned and Jed.

The funniest thing in the book is when Ned or Jed say something like "Ned or was it Jed?" It is really odd that Araminta likes hats that have dead mice and lizards and bats and toads and frogs on them. I also think it's weird that a ghost would dress up in a night costume! And I love the part when Araminta was hugging her Uncle Drac when he came back home, it was sweet.

I think boys and girls would enjoy "Ghostsitters (Araminta Spookie Book 5)" by Angie Sage.

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
It isn't enough that Araminta and best friend, Wanda, are left behind during her birthday week just so Aunt Tabby, Uncle Drac, and Wanda's parents can explore the giant bat caves of Transylvannia.

Great Aunt Emilene has been "delayed," which means the girls are stuck with a worse babysitting prospect: Nurse Watkins. Thank goodness Araminta's cooler-than-cool cousin Mathilda shows up and convinces Nurse Watkins that Aunt Tabby wouldn't mind if she looked after the girls alone.

But Araminta and Wanda quickly realize there are worse things than having an old fuddy-duddy for a babysitter once they meet Ned and Jed, two young poltergeists Mathilda can't make go away.

The mischievous spirits aren't in Spookie Manor more than five minutes before wreaking all sorts of havoc. With resident ghost Sir Horace already on edge over the planned destruction of his old keep, it's not long before he's threatening to vacate the premises permanently. When Ned and Jed's antics lead to the discovery of a tarnished old ring hidden in Sir Horace's armor, the old ghost is beyond despair and out the door with the manor's other two ghosts (his page Edmond and faithful wold Fang) in tow.

Together Araminta, Wanda, and Mathilda must find the source of Horace's distress, save his keep, bring their ghosts home, convince their new guests Spookie Manor *isn't* where they want to settle permanently, and set the house back to rights - all before the grown-ups return from their trip.

With its light, humorous storytelling and quirky, engaging characters, GHOSTSITTERS gives young readers an entertaining escape into Araminta's world of paranormal excursions and hijinx.

Reviewed by: Cat

ghostsitters
this series is fun and angie sage did a fine job of making you want to find out what the characters get into this time! A ghost in a suit of armor....an uncle that sleeps with the bats in his turrent. Fun and clever!