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The Scream

Joan Aiken

200296 pagesabout 1–2 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002Macmillan Children's Books · 96 pagesISBN 9780330397032
  • 2002Macmillan Children's Books · 96 pagesISBN 9780333960097

David's Gran has a mysterious liking for the famous painting 'The Scream'. She has strange powers, and sends bad luck to people she doesn't like. On her Scottish island home she was a 'Ridder' who could make troublesome rats run into the sea. Now she has moved to the city to look after her orphaned grandchildren, but her dark secrets have come with her...

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