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Paige and Curtis, two kids who are forced together during a school trip, discover a hidden painting, they are determined to find out who the Wickworth Boy really is and the real story behind the painting.
Swept up in a rollercoaster of an adventure, an unlikely friendship develops between them, and soon they are working together to expose the truth.
Could the boy in the painting really be the ghost who haunts the manor Or will they find the truth is even more surprising Perfect middlegrade novel.
This book starts with a prologue and I did a bit of a grass poll with my third graders last year and most of them skip prologues, because they dont tell you anything, or they go back and read them at the end when they realise the prologue did tell them something.
So if you are eight or nine years old: READ THE PROLOGUE, its the mystery thats referred to on the front cover of the book.


So without having given too much away, Ill get into chapter one, I really liked the characters because they are very normal kids, You probably know someone just like them, Paige is a bit whacky, into the supernatural and tarot cards and is scared of heights and

all kinds of things and Curtis is tortured by a terrible mistake he made, which he feels have had awful consequences.
This is not to say that these normal kids are boring, oh lordy no, Paige is hysterically funny partly because I recognise some aspects of her and Curtis is her straight man, who slowly realises that the way he views the world isnt the only way.


So I havent talked about the story or the mystery yet, Basically the kids are on a weeks adventure trip in this big old manor owned by a slightly deranged my take old woman.
There are attic rooms and cobwebs and lakes, hidden panels and longlost letters and all the ingredients you need to make a mystery.
There were also some dreams and maybe some help from mysterious forces, or not,

And finally, theres the part where we learn a bit of history, not by opening a textbook and turning to page, but by being unable to stop turning the pages of this book and finding out what happens next.
Maybe by the time young readers get to the end they will be encouraged by Paige and Curtis to go and find out some more by themselves.


So, yes, all in all, I couldnt put the book down, An adventure mystery for middle school readers set in a stately home where the children are residing for a week.

Paige and Curtis form an unlikely friendship and work together to resolve the mystery of the Wickworth boy, and his seeming ghostly presence at the manner.

This book is a fun way to get children to understand a bit more about the slave trade as well as friendship.
Enjoyable and quick read. I enjoyed this tale of an unlikely duo who find friendship and a mysterious painting at Wickworth Manor.
It's funny, adventurous and thoughtprovoking, but mostly just fun, This book is a fun read with a nice message about friendship and love, It's set in Britain and involves a school system that I know nothing about, but, apart from the baffling reason for this disparate groups of kids being at some old stately home, the ways that kids relate to each other or not is thoroughly well described.


Paige is with a couple of her friends and a mixture of others from her primary school but somehow gets separated from her best friends Sal and Jo in the group formation.
What a pain. And then that strange boy Curtis is in her group and is partnered with her, Curtis, in the meantime, is a fish out of water and even finds himself lost and with no place to sleep.
Fortuitously, the room he ends up 'hiding out' in has treasures that lead him and Paige along a journey in search of a ghost.
Of course Curtis is adamant that ghosts don't exist, Paige, on the other hand, has a psychic for a mother,

This story has history interwoven including the issue of slavery, has goodies and baddies what school setting doesn't!, and some excitement.
A good read indeed. i finally got to this one bc of G's Magical Readathon and i'm glad i did, i thought it was sweet, the mystery was intriguing and Paige and Curtis' friendship progress was warming.
a few parts felt a little 'dated' it was publishedish years ago but overall it holds up and i recommend it : I liked it.
It was a bit about ghosts and witchcraft, But if you don't believe in it , then it doesn't matter, A really amazing book, a mystery, and a great read, If you see this message, you have to read this book!!!! This was a fun book, though I expected more of it.
The characters were nice, but sometimes quite annoying,

But I love the cover, it is so colourful, : Scary ingredients: a Georgian manor with a troubled history, a ghost, a slave boy and the secretive owner.
Elen runs a tight ship in telling parallel stories, sugar plantation riches and present day transition to secondary school with a neat realist touch in a page turning adventure with precise historical link ups.
Our main characters seem destined to wreck the 'Freshers Week', Paige uses tarot cards, a seance and dowsing to investigate while Curtis uses library books and explains away Paige's more extravagant ideas.
Who's right A heartwarming ethnically sound adventure novel, Better than ever, Elen. Mucho mejor que el de Dan Brown!!! Me resultó muy extrano al principio que no hubiera descripciones, sobre todo de los personajes.
Curiosamente, uno de ellos es negro, como el nino del cuadro, Y, sin embargo, todo resulta tan natural, I love to write stories about ordinary children doing extraordinary things, With any luck, theres a list of all my published books further down my profile page, Find out on my sitelink website or sitelink Facebook pageI only review books that I have enjoyed which is why all my reviews are three or.
I love to write stories about ordinary children doing extraordinary things, With any luck, there's a list of all my published books further down my profile page, Find out on my sitelink website or sitelink Facebook pageI only review books that I have enjoyed which is why all my reviews are three or.
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