$1.79 in Kindle Store: Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett

[Xia]

Also, if you’d rather get the paperback of Johnny & the Dead (if you don’t want the kids using your Kindle, for instance) it’s also $1.79 right now.

I do not expect this price to last long, so please be sure to double check the price before hitting the buy button.


Johnny and the Dead
by Terry Pratchett
http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-and-the...7585387&sr=1-1
$1.79

Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-7–In this sequel to Only You Can Save Mankind (HarperCollins, 2005), 12-year-old Johnny discovers that he can see, hear, and communicate with spirits in the town cemetery. The cemetery, the only spot of unblighted land in the town, is about to be bulldozed and developed by a large corporation, so Johnny and his friends set about trying to save it (and its denizens) from destruction. Unfortunately, no one particularly famous was ever buried there, so the boys' publicity plan seems doomed–until the dead take things into their own innovative and rebellious hands, and Johnny finds the courage to take a stand against all odds. Fans of Gregory Maguire's books will appreciate the tongue-in-cheek tone and wry humor, and the quarrelsome yet friendly chatter among the dead spirits is reminiscent of Eva Ibbotson's titles. The plot (kids versus big corporation, à la Carl Hiassen) is tied up rather too neatly, but that's beside the point. Readers will take immense pleasure in the jokes, some broad and some subtle and dry, that come sailing at them from all sides. This book stands alone easily, but after reading it, kids will want the first one.–Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library
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From Booklist
Gr. 5-8. In the previous volume of the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, Only You Can Save Mankind (2005), aliens solicited Johnny's help. Here Johnny is buttonholed by dead people worried about a developer's plans to bulldoze their cemetery. Assisted by three skeptical but loyal sidekicks, Johnny delves into city history and mounts an eloquent plea for preservation, while the ghosts revel in modern technology and pop culture. Aspects of the telling are imperfectly blended, especially the thread involving Johnny's ineffable sense of connection to a local battalion decimated in World War I. Nonetheless, Pratchett's fans will revel in the idiosyncratic touches, such as the quirky euphemisms for dead ("breathily challenged," "post-senior citizens"), and his thematic juggling act, which incorporates wit and slapstick, philosophies of the afterlife, and a gritty view of a struggling, working-class community ("The point about being dead in this town is that it's probably hard to tell the difference"). First published in England in the early 1990s, which accounts for some dated references, the trilogy was previously available to U.S. readers only in a book-club edition. Jennifer Mattson
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The following Pratchett titles are also (temporarily) discounted, although not nearly as much so as the above. They are priced less than usual, however (they usually range in price from $4.79 to $9.99):

Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett
http://www.amazon.com/Only-You-Can-S...7585683&sr=1-5
$3.99

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
http://www.amazon.com/A-Hat-Full-of-...7586309&sr=1-3
$3.99

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Free-M...7586347&sr=1-4
$3.99

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Mauric...7586386&sr=1-6
$3.99

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Originally Posted by Xia

Also, if you’d rather get the paperback of Johnny & the Dead (if you don’t want the kids using your Kindle, for instance) it’s also $1.79 right now.

You can't tempt me into breaking my "No buying ebooks in November" pledge...

... but only because I already have ebook (& paper) copies of all those books!