Description
Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies...Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to).
Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site.
But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny.
They're not going to take it lying down ...especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.
Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were...well...alive.
Particularly if they break a few rules ...
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224 pages
- Publisher: Random House Children's Publishers UK
- Publication Date: 29/04/2004
- Category: Science fiction
- ISBN: 9780552551069
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Review by caro488
Pratchet-Johnny and the Dead -Johnny Maxwell, a twelve-year-old boy -can see and talk to the dead. Not surprisingly, Johnny’s friends don’t believe him at first. The council wants to sell the cemetery as a building site for new company, United Amalgamated Consolidated Holdings. But the dead are not going to take this lying down, having learned a thing or two from Johnny and it being Halloween the next day.They find themselves beginning to see life is a lot more enticing beyond the graveyard than it was when they were living, especially if they bend a few of the rules.
Review by ClicksClan
Nice quick read, managed to read it in about three sittings. Short enough to almost read in one day.Classic Terry Pratchett sense of humour, lots of funny bits that I couldn't help but laugh out loud at or share with my husband.Couldn't put all my favourite quotes into my book journal because lots of them ran over a whole page or more.Read out of order, originally thought it was third but it's actually second. Don't feel like I missed anything by reading it out of order, just Mrs Tachyon's introduction.Was expecting to see Kirsty in this one but she's not in it.
Review by martensgirl
A nice quick read. I preferred it to the previous book in the series as it was funnier and the plot was better.
