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1444001906
Book Vampires and Volts
Year: 2011
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: JF
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Orion Children's, 2011
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781444001907
Notes:
It's Halloween & the Otherhands are enjoying the Annual Pumpkin Hunt. There's a technique to catching these orange beasties, whipping off their heads & ending up knee-deep in pumpkin goo. Pumpkin fun aside there are preparations to be made, at short notice, for the Great Halloween Ball at Otherhand Castle.
Series: The Raven Mysteries, Book 4
Extent: Pbk
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