The Shade of Hettie Daynes

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<p><i>If you expect to see a ghost, you see a ghost...</i> That's what Bethan tells herself when her brother Harry takes her to see the ghost at the old reservoir. But she really<i>can</i>see it: a pale figure floating over the water, one finger pointing downwards.</p><p>Local legend says that the ghost is Hettie Daynes, an ancestor of their family, who vanished over a hundred years ago.</p><p>If so, what does she<i>want</i>? And why is she appearing now?</p><p>Harry and Bethan and their friends Rob and Alison are determined to find out!</p><p>A deliciously shivery ghost tale from multi award-winning author Robert Swindells.</p>

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<p>ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.</p><p>RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.</p><p>'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES</p><p>'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH</p>

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