213 pages
English language
Published May 29, 2006 by HarperCollins.
After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.
Reading Pratchett's philosophy set in our world instead of the Discworld is an interesting experience.
Johnny and the Dead is about a young teen learning about his town's early 20th century history.
Set in the early 1990s it is also a glimpse into life before the web and cellphones.
Audiobook with nephew.
Not as compelling as only you can save mankind, but does well in terms of being a kids book that takes seriously that kids can understand big ideas.
Now quite dated, feels very 1990s with some awful clangers re: race/sex/sexuality.
The community meeting scene with the squash balls was epic on the audiobook.
