The Ghost Of Uncle Arvie

Author: Sharon Creech

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $16.95 NZD
  • : 9780330342124
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Macmillan Children's Books
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  • : 0.3
  • : 10 October 1997
  • : 200mm X 130mm X 7mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 16.95
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  • : Sharon Creech
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : Simon Cooper
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  • : 813.54
  • : From 6 To 9
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  • : 96
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Barcode 9780330342124
9780330342124

Description

Aimed at 6-9 year-olds, this book tells of the very unusual ghost of Uncle Arvie. He needs some help from his nephew to find three precious possessions at his old home.

Author description

Sharon Creech is an American who lived in England for 19 years. She now lives in New Jersey, USA, where her husband is headmaster of a boarding school. Sharon is well known for her fiction for older children, Walk Two Moons was shortlisted for the 1995 Smarties Book Prize and won the 1995 Newbery Medal, awarded to 'the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in 1994'. It is also the winner of the 1995 Children's Book Award and the W H Smith Mind Boggling Books Award 1996. Her novel Ruby Holler won the 2002 Carnegie Medal.