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Copyright © 2000 by Melvin Burgess

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First published in the United States in 2003 by Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

Originally published in Great Britain in 2000 by Andersen Press Limited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burgess, Melvin.

The ghost behind the wall / Melvin Burgess.

p. cm.

Summary: Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.

[1. Ghosts—Fiction. 2. Memory—Fiction. 3. Old age—Fiction. 4. Apartment houses—Fiction. 5. London (England)—Fiction. 6. Great Britain—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B9166 Gh 2003   [Fic]—dc 21   2002068806

ISBN 0-8050-7149-0

First American Edition—2003

eISBN 9781466838208

First eBook edition: January 2013