Araminta Spookie 1: My Haunted House

by Angie Sage

Book Overview

Meet Araminta, the star of a delightfully "spookie" chapter book series from Angie Sage, author of the bestselling Septimus Heap series!

Araminta Spookie lives in a wonderful old haunted house, but her crabby aunt Tabby wants to move. Aunt Tabby is determined to sell their house--Araminta has to stop her!

With the help of a haunted suit of armor named Sir Horace, a ghost named Edmund, and a lot of imagination, Araminta...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060774835
• ISBN13: 9780060774837
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

my haunted house

Angie sage has really done a great job in making a haunted house, ghosts and things fun reading. THe kids enjoy araminta. Its a good read and nice chapters for those that are just starting to read on their own

Araminta Spooky and her seven bedrooms

I loved this book. I wish I had books like this to read wihen I was a kid. I really enjoyed Araminta and I would love to have a house were I could have a Thursday bedroom. I like books I can read again and again and this is one of them.

Gets kids interested in reading!

This book is a fantastic early introduction to novels of fun and fantasy. (Especially for girls, as the main character is female). It had humor, is lightly illustrated, and was able to hold my daughters attention. Each night we would read one chapter, and for the first time she didn't want to stop reading. The second book Sword in the Grotto is just as great. We are looking forward to book 3!

Reminicent of the Aadams Family...You Will LOVE Araminta Spookie!

Oh, I so very much liked this one and so did our Girl. The story starts out with Araminta Spookie, affectionately known as Minty who lives with her Aunt Tabby (who always seems to be yelling at the boiler) and her Uncle Drac (who sleeps, all day and works all night...he also happens to sleep upside down in a turret in the house with all his bats) because her parents disappeared while hunting for vampires in Transylvania. This is quite the quirky story...Araminta strikes me as a very Wednesday Addams type character who delights in searching for ghosts and laying traps for unsuspecting visitors. It seems that cranky old Aunt Tabby (after her most recent stint berating and kicking the boiler) has decided to sell the house because the boiler is just too much trouble (announced over soot covered toast no less), what ensues is quite the little adventure for Araminta attempts to sabotage Aunt tabby and scare away all the perspective house buyers...but when the strangest family shows up and wants to buy the house despite her best efforts...she's none to happy about it. Find out what Araminta has to do to keep the house from selling, all the while looking for ghosts (her life long dream happens to be to find a ghost) and encountering some very interesting twists as the story goes along. This story is utterly charming in its carefully crafted, somewhat campy, but still suitably spooky little story! It's imaginative and fun for readers about 8-12 or so and it's fairly short with some cute illustrations that help bring the story to life. This is meant to be fun and a little silly I think, not genuinely spine-chilling...something to keep in mind...as an older reader (age 12 or so) might not be as amused with this story as say an 8 or 9 year old would be...My Haunted House would also make a fine read aloud book for younger kids (say age 6-8). I give it a solid A...we really enjoyed it and would recommend it in a heart beat, it's the quirky details that make this story wonderful and we are really looking forward to the second one