MMGM: The Griffins of Castle Cary by Heather Shumaker
ABOUT THE BOOK
Siblings Meg, Will, and Ariel Griffin are off on an adventure! They can’t wait to spend a week vising their eccentric aunt and her giant, tongue-drooling Newfoundland dog in England. But when they finally arrive, they’re faced with a few local secrets that stir up more than a little trouble.
Add in some very peculiar lights, strange new friends, a police chase and some stampeding sheep, and the Griffin kids are in over their heads—literally. Apparently this town has a ghost problem and the three children must race to solve the mystery before the ghosts take something that doesn’t belong to them.
REVIEW
When Meg and her siblings, Will and Ariel, visit their Aunt Effie in England, they are hoping for an enjoyable holiday with their favorite aunt. What they don't expect is to face a couple of ghosts whose desires interfere with their plans. At first the ghost stories are merely amusing, but as Ariel gets lost in her newfound imaginary friend, and Will hears music that isn't really there, Meg wonders if there is more going on than they know. As it becomes apparent that the ghosts intentions aren't friendly, the kids have to find a way to satisfy the ghost's longings or become casualties of them. I'll admit, this book was for me, one of those in which I wanted to jump into the story and stop the kids from making decisions that were clearly going to get them in trouble or give them a warning to watch out for a seeming innocuous event. Usually when I feel like that it's because I've come to care about the characters. So while I figured out several plot points long before they actually developed, I cared enough about the characters to keep reading to make sure that things worked out properly. And I'll admit, I didn't see the rather amusing scenes in the hospital coming, which was a nice surprise. This is a rather slow building ghost story with enough tension to keep the story moving and enough menace to keep the story compelling.
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