A Book in Review: Johnny and the Dead

Johnny and the Dead By: Terry Pratchett
fiction: children's, sci-fi/fantasy 213 pages
Book count: 23

This book is book two in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy. You don't need to read the first book in the series to enjoy this book, although after reading it you will want to read them all. In this book Johnny sees the ghost of all the dead people in his local cemetery. Only they don't want to be called ghosts. One was a communist who doesn't even believe in the possibility of ghost as he is an atheist as are all good communist. When ever confronted with the issue he makes fun excuses/reasoning for how he can be there but still be right about ghosts. The ghost learn that they are going to build over the graveyard and move them. They make Johnny work to save their graves and over time work on spending more time materialized and working to change things on their own. This book is written at about a 5-6th grade reading level.