While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful and evil ghost.
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"A great ghost story. One of the best ever." Junior Bookshelf
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Robert Westall was born in 1929 on Tyneside, where he grew up during the Second World War. He studied Fine Art and Sculpture, and for many years taught in schools throughout the North of England. His first novel for children, The Machine Gunners won the Carnegie Medal in 1975. He won it again in 1982 for The Scarecrow (the first writer to win the medal twice), the Smarties Prize in 1989 for Blitzcat, and the Guardian Award in 1991 for The Kingdom by The Sea. He died in 1993.
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The Watch house by Robert westall,
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First published in 1977, The Watch house is a horror novel for teenagers by Robert Westall because it is very scary book
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The Best Book Ever,
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Robert Westall is an amazing author. This book is my all-time favorite. I've read it at least 2000 times! I think that anyone would love this book because it keeps you interested and guessing.
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The book was one of the best,
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It was a scream. It was one of the scariest books. It makes you want to never put the book down.
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