The Screaming Staircase

This is one of the best books I have read for while. I loved it because it was based on an intriguing and original idea. England has been afflicted by an outbreak of ghosts and they are not nice. Only children have the sensitivity to hear, see and sense ghosts so they are ones who have to fight and destroy them. The main characters Lucy, Lockwood and George have started a ghost fighting agency but things are not going well, that is, until they are hired to clean up England's most haunted house. A screaming staircase and a room that drips blood are just two of the ghastly obstacles they will need to face before the night is over. This book is scary but also funny and entertaining.  This is the first book in a new series by Jonathan Stroud who wrote the famous Bartimaeus sequence. Read it today!