# Ghosts of Shanghai

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- Book: [Ghosts of Shanghai](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-sedgwick/ghosts-of-shanghai) ([Ghosts of Shanghai.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-sedgwick/ghosts-of-shanghai.md))
- Authors: [Julian Sedgwick](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-sedgwick)
- Publisher: hodder_children_s_books
- ISBN: 978-14-4492-390-2
- Published: 2015-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A powerful teen thriller with echoes of J G Ballard's Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life ... Obsessed with martial arts and ghost stories, Ruby is part of a gang of Chinese and ex-pat children who hide out in ruined White Cloud Temple. But the world of Shanghai in the late 1920s is driven with danger: disease, crime, espionage and revolution are sweeping the streets. And since the death of her younger brother Thomas, Ruby is stalked by another anxiety and fear. Faced with a series of local hauntings, and armed with a lucky bookshop find - The Almanac of Distant Realms - Ruby forms the Shanghai Ghost Club to hunt down restless spirits. When best friend Faye is kidnapped by the Green Hand, Ruby must trust a mysterious stranger - and face her worst fears - in order to save her friends, and her own life. And in the ensuing fight she will catch a glimpse of the one spirit she has longed to see ... The secrets that Ruby's father and friends have kept from her are coming back to haunt them all.