A mischievous creature, mostly invisible but also able to shape-shift at will, the boggart gleefully runs amok amongst the gadgetry of his new world-until he realizes how much he misses his old one. In their first adventure, The Bogart, Emily Volnik and her brother Jessup inadvertently transport an ancient spirit from his ancestral castle in Scotland all the way to their home in Toronto. “As long as writers with Susan Cooper’s skill continue to publish,” The New York Times observed, “magic is always available.” And magic-the magic of the old ways and the modern wizardry of our new technologies-is at the heart of this distinguished pair of fantasies. The Boggart & The Boggart and the Monster An outstanding achievement, The Boggart will work its special magic on all who read it. Sometimes extremely funny, sometimes wildly scary,and always totally absorbing, this remarkable story - brilliantly imagined and beautifully written - marks the return of the Newbery Award winner Susan Cooper to the field of novels for young readers. The collision of modern techology and the Old Magic brings perils nobody could have imagined - and, in the end, an amazing and touching solution to the problem of the Boggart who has found himself on the wrong side of the ocean. The astonishments, delight, and horrors that invade their lives with the arrival of the Boggart fill this swiftly moving story. The Volnik family - including Emily and her nine-year-old computer genius brother Jessup - visit Castle Keep, and when they return to Toronto, they unwittingly take the Boggart with them. But the last Scottish owner has died and left the castle to his great-nephew Robert Volnik of Toronto, Canada.
He has lived in Castle Keep for centuries, playing tricks on the owners.
He is invisible - an ancient mischievous spirit, solitary and sly, born of a magic as old as the rocks and the waves. In a tumbledown castle in the Western Highlands of Scotland lives the Boggart.
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