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When Rollo and Madlyn spend their vacation at Clawstone Castle with their relatives, they find the estate in dire need of money. The castle’s great park contains a legendary herd of wild white cattle that have roamed since the days of the Druids. With the help of a mysterious recluse in the library, the children gather a host of eccentric ghosts—a bloodstained bride, a rat‑gnawed aristocrat, a circus‑saunted girl, disembodied feet, and more—to help convert the castle into a thriving tourist attraction. As the visitor numbers swell, a sinister menace threatens the cattle, forcing the children and their spectral allies to confront a darker fate.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Eva Ibbotson
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