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The Boggart
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The Boggart Hardcover - 1993

by Susan Cooper

When the Volnik family of Toronto inherits an ancient castle in Scotland, they also inherit the Boggart, a mischievous spirit that has lived there for centuries. When the Volniks unwittingly bring the Boggart back to Canada, the results are explosive.


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In a tumbledown castle in the Western Highlands of Scotland lives the Boggart. He is invisible -- an ancient mischievous spirit, solitary and sly, born of a magic as old as the rocks and the waves. He has lived in Castle Keep for centuries, playing tricks on the owners. But the last Scottish owner has died and left the castle to his great-nephew Robert Volnik of Toronto, Canada. The Volnik family -- including Emily and her nine-year-old computer genius brother Jessup -- visit Castle Keep, and when they return to Toronto, they unwittingly take the Boggart with them.
The astonishments, delight, and horrors that invade their lives with the arrival of the Boggart fill this swiftly moving story. The collision of modern techology and the Old Magic brings perils nobody could have imagined -- and, in the end, an amazing and touching solution to the problem of the Boggart who has found himself on the wrong side of the ocean.
Sometimes extremely funny, sometimes wildly scary, and always totally absorbing, this remarkable story -- brilliantly imagined and beautifully written -- marks the return of the Newbery Award winner Susan Cooper to the field of novels for young readers. An outstanding achievement, The Boggart will work its special magic on all who read it

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  • Title The Boggart
  • Author Susan Cooper
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York
  • Date 1993
  • ISBN 9780689505768 / 0689505760
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 5.73 x 0.85 in (21.74 x 14.55 x 2.16 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 970
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Cultural Region: Scottish
    • Geographic Orientation: Ontario
    • Locality: Toronto, Ontario
  • Library of Congress subjects Scotland, Magic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number LC 92015527
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • ALA Notable Children's Books, 01/01/1994, Page 1352
  • Booklist, 01/15/1993, Page 907
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/1994, Page 869
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/1991, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/14/1992, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 01/01/1993, Page 96

About the author

Susan Cooper is one of our foremost fantasy authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her books' accolades include the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and five shortlists for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten Books for Children pick), King of Shadows, Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, which won the Scottish Arts Council's Children's Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
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