The Empty Grave
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Chapter Book · Ages 10–14 · 2017

The Empty Grave

By Jonathan Stroud

Book #5 in the Lockwood & Co. series

Ghost hunters face spectral foes and hidden truths in a perilous mission.

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437 pages
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Lockwood, Lucy, and their team break into the Fittes Mausoleum, seeking answers about the legendary psychic Marissa Fittes. As they confront spectral and human threats, secrets about Lockwood's past and the agency's future hang in the balance. Will they uncover the truth, or will their journey to the Other Side change them forever? With unexpected allies and a climactic battle ahead, the stakes have never been higher for these young ghost hunters. Can they survive and solve the mysteries that haunt them?

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NOW A NETFLIX SERIES In this spine-tingling next book of the Lockwood & Co series, the ghost-hunting gang take on terrifying new challenges. Five months after the events in The Creeping Shadow, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission: they have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where the body of the legendary psychic heroine Marissa Fittes lies. Or does it? This is just one of the many questions to be answered in Book 5 of the Lockwood & Co. series. Will Lockwood ever reveal more about his family’s past to Lucy? Will their trip to the Other Side leave Lucy and Lockwood forever changed? Will Penelope Fittes succeed in shutting down their agency forever? The young agents must survive attacks from foes both spectral and human before they can take on their greatest enemy in a climactic and chaotic battle. And to prevail they will have to rely on help from some surprising–and shadowy–allies. Jonathan Stroud once again delivers a rousing adventure full of danger, laughs, twists, and frights. The revelations will send readers back to Book 1 to start the series all over again. Exclusive to this paperback edition: a Lockwood & Co. short story, “The Dagger in the Desk,” and an illustrated ghost guide.

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
437
Reading age
10–14
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
710L
Themes & topics
Books about ghostsBooks about LondonBooks about psychic abilities
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.3
F&P level
~Q
AR points
17
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
190556
Publication
Published
September 18, 2018
First published
September 12, 2017
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781484790069

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