Overview

Aurelie Bonhoffen has grown up in the circus. She's been a juggler, the back end of a cow, and played a dead girl on the ghost train at Gribblesea Pier, her parents' run-down amusement park. She adores her family, especially her uncles Rolo and Rindolf, but when she turns twelve she stumbles onto a remarkable secret. Her family members have two chances at life--they can become ghosts! It's hard to accept that her favorite uncles are ghosts, but when Aurelie's new friend at school reveals a dangerous plot to demolish the pier, the secret helps her confront the greatest threat her family has ever faced.

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This fast-paced, engaging, and charming story has echoes of Jeanne Birdsall's Penderwicks (Knopf) and some Dickensian elements, but in the end this is just a finely executed story of family and friendship and the ties that bind a community. -- School Library Journal . ..offers lovers of light supernatural fare a quickly paced, skillfully plotted yarn... -- BCCB

Author Information

Deborah Abela has written and directed for children's television programming in Australia, where she lives. She is the author of the Spy Force series.

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