The Creeping Shadow
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Chapter Book · Ages 10–14 · 2016

The Creeping Shadow

By Jonathan Stroud

Book #4 in the Lockwood & Co. series

A ghost-hunting team faces betrayal and manipulation in their quest to stop a legendary threat.

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Lucy, now a freelance ghost-hunter, is drawn back to Lockwood & Co. for a perilous mission: to stop the Brixton Cannibal. As tensions simmer, they uncover a web of deceit involving black marketeers, a mysterious Spirit Cape, and a manipulative mastermind. Can Lucy and her team unravel the truth before it's too late?

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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES In this spine-tingling sequel of the Lockwood & Co series, the ghost-hunting gang take on terrifying new challenges. After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out to agencies that value her ever-improving skills. One day she is pleasantly surprised by a visit from Lockwood, who tells her he needs a good Listener for a tough assignment. Penelope Fittes, the leader of the giant Fittes Agency wants them – and only them – to locate and remove the Source for the legendary Brixton Cannibal. They succeed in their very dangerous task, but tensions remain high between Lucy and the other agents. Even the skull in the jar talks to her like a jilted lover. What will it take to reunite the team? Black marketeers, an informant ghost, a Spirit Cape that transports the wearer, and mysteries involving Steve Rotwell and Penelope Fittes just may do the trick. But, in a shocking cliffhanger ending, the team learns that someone has been manipulating them all along. . . .

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Format
Paperback
Pages
445
Reading age
10–14
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
690L
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.2
F&P level
~P
AR points
17
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
184113
Publication
Published
September 12, 2017
First published
September 13, 2016
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781484711903

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