The Haunting of Charles Dickens Audio CD – Unabridged, 13 November 2012

This was a great read for all the family,really gets you into the dickens period and how people use to live

finding this book hard to get into

The Pickel family owns a print shop and has customers/friends with the likes of Charles Dickens. The daughter of the house, Meg, is adventurous and daring. She is strong willed and tries to find her missing older brother. While traveling at night through London she unexpectedly meets Charles Dickens. They make a pact that they will save Meg's brother.I felt different enjoyment from this book then Buzbee's Steinbeck Ghost. Instead of flowing into each book Steinbeck wrote this one was a whole new mystery featuring Dickens and mentions of his stories. Meg and Dickens are interesting partners. Dickens comes across very fun loving which if you have seen real photos of Dickens you would not think that of him because I have not seen one where he smiles.This book tells about the dark side of the times for children who worked in labor houses like Dickens did once as a child. So book has a little grittiness to it that makes some it hard to enjoy even though it may be based on facts. Dickens does make it laughable at times by dress in odd suits and meeting odd souls. Good read for Dickens lovers.

A delightful story, told in the manner of Charles Dickens himself, this tale picks up characters and style right out of the great novels and opens the eyes of young readers to the horrors that existed before child labor laws.

This is a great series for young adults that is written by a local, Bay Area author. A teacher of mine heard about this author while at a Steinbeck conference from another teacher. We bought the series for the campus library. We cannot keep it on the shelves. The students really enjoy it.