Ghosts of Shanghai

A powerful teen thriller with echoes of J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life ... Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide out in ruined White Cloud Temple. But the world of Shanghai in the late 1920s is driven with danger: disease, crime, espionage and revolution are sweeping the streets. And since the death of her younger brother Thomas, Ruby is stalked by another anxiety and fear. Faced with a series of local hauntings, and armed with a lucky bookshop find - The Almanac of Distant Realms - Ruby forms the Shanghai Ghost Club to hunt down restless spirits. When best friend Faye is kidnapped by the Green Hand, Ruby must trust a mysterious stranger - and face her worst fears - in order to save her friends, and her own life. And in the ensuing fight she will catch a glimpse of the one spirit she has longed to see ... The secrets that Ruby's father and friends have kept from her are coming back to haunt them all.

Product details

• Authors: Julian Sedgwick, Sedgwick Julian
• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9781444923902
• ISBN: 978-1-4449-2390-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Hodder Children's Books; Ghosts of Shanghai; Ghosts of Shanghai
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Ghost Stories, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction