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Death and Douglas


School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

No. of pages 372

Published: 2017

Great for age 7-12 years

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Douglas has grown up around the business of death. Generations of his family have run the Mortimer Family Funeral Home. The mortician and gravediggers are all his buddies. And the display room of caskets is an awesome place for hide and seek. Its business as usual in Douglass small New England town. Until one day an incredibly out of the ordinary murder victim is brought to the funeral home. And more startling: others follow. On the cusp of Halloween, a serial killer has arrived. And unsatisfied with the small-town investigation, Douglas enlists his friends to help him solve the mystery. With sumptuous descriptions of a bucolic town and its quirky people, fascinating yet middle gradeappropriate insider information about the funeral process, and a crackling mystery with a heart-pounding conclusionDeath and Douglas has something for readers young and old.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-6th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 372 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by Skyhorse Publishing .

< J. W. Ocker is the Edgar Award-winning author of Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe . His work has appeared in Rue Morgue magazine, the Boston Globe , CNN, the Atlantic , and other places people stick writing. He's from Maryland but has lived in New Hampshire since 2008. This is his first book for children.

 

"Spooky! Hilarious! And beautifully written. Ocker's Death and Douglas now joins Bradbury's The Halloween Tree as an annual autumn read." -Jay Asher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why and Piper

 

 

"Ocker populates his eerie New England town with a memorable cast, and gives us a compelling hero in Douglas Mortimer. Kids and coffee-drinkers beware!" -Patrick Moody, author of The Gravedigger's Son

 

 

"With the perfect balance of macabre and mystery, the ideal combination of horror and humor, the Ghastlies are bringing plenty of goosebumps and giggles for everyone!" -Brooks Benjamin, author of My Seventh Grade Life in Tights

 

"Spooky! Hilarious! And beautifully written. Ocker's Death and Douglas now joins Bradbury's The Halloween Tree as an annual autumn read." -Jay Asher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why and Piper

 

 

"Ocker populates his eerie New England town with a memorable cast, and gives us a compelling hero in Douglas Mortimer. Kids and coffee-drinkers beware!" -Patrick Moody, author of The Gravedigger's Son

 

 

"With the perfect balance of macabre and mystery, the ideal combination of horror and humor, the Ghastlies are bringing plenty of goosebumps and giggles for everyone!" -Brooks Benjamin, author of My Seventh Grade Life in Tights