Johnny and the Dead, Terry Pratchett
Johnny and the Dead, Terry Pratchett
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Johnny and the Dead

Author: Terry Pratchett

Series: Johnny Maxwell

Narrator: Tony Robinson

Abridged: 2 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: RHCP Digital

Published: 01/04/2007


Synopsis

Sell the cemetery?

Over their dead bodies . . .

Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.

Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were . . . well . . . alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . .

The second book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy.

About Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thibault on November 13, 2023

Inspired by real events in the 1980s, when cemeteries were sold as building land. Johnny Maxwell can see the dead and when the cemetery is about to be sold, the dead want to put a stop to it. Johnny Maxwell helps them, trying to find a good reason to keep the cemetery as it is. But the dead don’t sit......more

Goodreads review by Emilie Christine on January 23, 2024

I am obsessed with reading children's and young adult books written by talented authors who let themselves lose when they don't have to follow the rules of literature for adults. As Neil Gaiman contemplated, what even is a children's book? Is there even such a thing as literature for kids just as wel......more

Goodreads review by Wreade1872 on February 06, 2022

There are certainly good things here. There is thought and care and humanity, maybe a bit too younger readers to get in fact. However there are a lot of smaller issues. The structure is odd, it spends a lot more time with the dead than your expecting rather than focusing on Johnny. It has less to say......more

Goodreads review by Marko on December 30, 2018

Baš kako zakoni fizike nalažu,priča o Džoniju postaje sve bolja i bolja......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on June 01, 2018

I was packing up books to move and came across this one that I didn't know I had in my Pratchett collection and I don't have the others in the series. It looked cute and had ghosts, though, and it looked fun and short, so I gave it a try. It is very dated, with lots of early 90s pop culture referenc......more


Quotes

Marvellous story . . . funny, poignant, angry, outrageous and moving . . . Terry Pratchett is simply the best there is Vector

A humorous book, full of puns and asides, wittily and skilfully written... a delight of a book for any fluent teenage reader School Librarian

A lovely, funny, witty, sometimes wise book, exciting and entertaining and always highly readable Junior Bookshelf

Entertaining fable Independent

A funny, poignant story Write Away!