Johnny and the Dead - Terry Pratchett

Johnny is walking home through the cemetery with his friends. While reading the gravestones, he is surprised to find a dead person talking to him, then more. They have one purpose. They have decided that Johnny will be the one to save the cemetery from demolition. How can an eleven-year-old boy save the dead? "Johnny and the Dead" is the second book in Terry Pratchett's "Johnny Maxwell" trilogy. Where the first novel followed Johnny's action-packed space battles against the alien hordes, "Johnny and the Dead" is a far more pedestrian affair. In fact, it is so pedestrian it is almost stationary! Nothing really happens in this ...  Read the complete review

Have you ever wandered into the cemetry and felt there was someone watching you? What if there was infact someone watching you, an old man sitting by a tombstone smoking a pipe watching your ever move.. It`s scary, but not too scary, Now imagine that you can see right thru this man, you can read the tombstone thru his chest.. He is infact a ghost (excuse me: Dead Person), Now that`s scary. And that`s the problem that faces Young Johnny in this entertaining Terry Pratchett Novel, winner of the 1993 Macallan Award in the Children's Category. Johnny Maxwell is all input. He sees and hears the same things that we do, but we filter them out because we have ...  Read the complete review