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|title=Goth Girl: and the Ghost of a Mouse

|author=Chris Riddell

|publisher=Macmillan Children's Books

|date=September 2013

|summary=Completely silly but so clever with it, this book is always going to be more artful than its young audience ever suspects, and is all the better for it – proof that there is a wrong and a right way for an author to try too hard.

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'''2013 Costa Children’s Book Award shortlist'''

It all starts with ''sigh, soft and sad and ending in a little squeak''. But while some mice can end up roaring, so this book soon escalates from just meeting the ghost of a dead mouse to something much bigger. Through exploring the country pile Goth Girl Ada lives in with her father, alongside the ghost mouse, she finds an albatross, a Polar Explorer who might be a monster, and then a compact club of young people her age she had no idea existed. There's even more to be found after that, as Ada discovers how malevolent the party season's plans are going to get, with a nasty indoor hunt having some remarkable prey…

More light-hearted Gothic can be had with the whole series including [[Raven Mysteries: Flood and Fang by Marcus Sedgwick]].

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