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|title=ParaNorman

|author=Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

|publisher=Hodder Children's Books

|date=August 2012

|summary=Cute, but quite effectively gruesome, this tale of a boy against an aged witch character has all the fun the cinema version hopefully shares, and is not just a cash-in.

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Things are not easy when you're the only kid in town who can see, and talk to, ghosts. You can't bury your own grandma in peace without other ghosts asking you to pass on messages to those they left behind. You can't study biology without the toad you're supposed to dissect asking for a better end. And you can't take an unwanted starring lead in the school pageant, even when it's a special one for the three-hundredth anniversary of the town's own witch trial, without getting a message from beyond that means the legacy of that historical event will be a life or death matter…