Tomorrow's Ghost
A pacy historical ghost adventure story from the Carnegie Medal-winning author of BUFFALO SOLDIER, perfect for age 9, 10, 11, 12
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Walker Books
Age 9+
Chillers, Historical Fiction Classic Fiction Horror & Ghost Stories
A pacy historical time-slip adventure for middle grade readers, from the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Apache and Buffalo Soldier.
Haunted by the past, can Anna rewrite the future?
1976: Twelve-year-old Anna, bored and lonely away from her friends for the summer, finds herself dreaming about a girl from 1919 – a neglected and lonely girl living in a mansion with an austere and unloving grandfather. As Anna’s dreams grow more vivid, she realizes that the girl from the past is calling out to her – and that Anna must cross time to save her from an untimely death...
Creators
Tanya Landman has written numerous books for children and young people, including Buffalo Soldier, winner of the Carnegie Medal; Apache, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the BookTrust Teenage Prize; The Goldsmith's Daughter and Hell and High Water, shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize; the Sam Swann and Poppy Fields mystery series and the beautiful picture book The Song of the Nightingale illustrated by Laura Carlin, shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.
Reviews
This aptly-named middle grade tale is a compelling time-slip story bridging the early twentieth century and the memorable summer of 1976. I enjoyed it hugely and read it in one sitting.
The English Association
Gripping, haunting and powerfully atmospheric, this story will have readers on edge until the final chapter reveal. I read it in a day, so bound up in the fate of both Etty and Anna had I become.
Red Reading Hub
Magical, mysterious and absolutely chilling, Tomorrow’s Ghost takes readers on a journey through time in the hopes of saving a life shattered by loss and sorrow. With Anna, they will see how the pieces of a broken world can be put together to make something beautiful. Themes of family, foster care, kindness and hope defeat loneliness and fear.
Scope for Imagination
Shorter than most middle grades at less than 250 pages, this is a read that will captivate confident readers in Year 4 upwards into KS3 and would make a lovely shared read in upper KS2, where I suspect many young teachers will be equally as surprised by the historical details as their charges.
Mrs Sydney's Famous World's Smallest Library
A beautifully told, time-slip adventure that brings two young girls together in a poignant and heart-warming story, perfect for readers of 9+.
Book Craic
