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Synopsis
While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful and evil ghost.
Is The Watch House appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 10 and up.
A classic British ghost story featuring a teenage girl who encounters a malevolent spirit in a maritime museum. Contains supernatural horror elements and themes of death related to historical shipwrecks, but violence is atmospheric rather than graphic.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death, grief, and supernatural horror.
Who'll love this
Readers who love spooky ghost stories and mysteries will be drawn into this atmospheric tale of a girl who must confront an evil spirit haunting a coastal museum.