The House at the Edge of the World
Matteo Francini
Ghost Agency
Humorous
Mystery
Who said ghosts can’t make us have fun?
Looking for a ghost to haunt a castle? Need an apparition to impress someone? Want a Poltergeist to liven up a party? The Willard Moogley Ghost Placement Agency is what you need! Will is the last descendant of the Moogley dynasty. He’s an orphan and lives on the nineteenth floor of the oldest skyscraper in Manhattan with his twin turtles, Fulmina and Saetto. Since his Uncle Alvin passed away, Will has been running the family’s Ghost Agency: a placement agency for ghosts that helps them find work.
- Characters full of energy and wit, just like Will, the memorable protagonist, and his inseparable friends.
- Even spooky stories can make us smile.
GOOD WORK, WILL MOOGLEY!
A chain of hotels wants to transform an old manor into a hotel for rich individuals looking for chills… What better opportunity to revive the fate of Will Moogley’s ramshackle ghost agency?
A FEARFULLY FRIGHTENING FAMILY!
Will is grappling with an unusual case: retired ghost Jerrold’s house is inhabited by the living! Will he manage to cleanse the ghost house… of the living?
THE SKYSCRAPER GHOST
A contractless ghost haunts the Empire State Building, terrorising the visitors. Who can convince him to move on but Will Moogley?
EVEN GHOSTS QUIVER
The inexplicable disappearance of a ghost, the discovery of a strange bluish liquid… A ghost catcher must have arrived in the city, and for the Moogley Agency, it triggers an emergency!
Publisher:
Piemme
Target:
8-10
Year:
2020
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
Author
Alessandro Gatti
Alessandro Gatti was born in 1975. As a young man, he studied a lot of philosophy but then he thought it was best to start writing novels for children. He is the author of the Klincus Corteccia books (Mondadori), which have just been adapted into a cartoon series. Along with Pierdomenico Baccalario and Lucia Vaccarino, he is also the author of the novels in the Sherlock, Lupin & Io (Sherlock, Lupin & Me) series, Piemme, translated into several languages. For a few years he has also been a comic book writer for Disney.
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