Golden & Grey: A Good Day for Haunting Book

After his triumph over a ghost collector and a doctor who does no good, Tom Golden thinks life is finally...well, golden. Grey Arthur and his ghostly crew have happily settled into their roles as Invisible Friends while Tom has made a new human friend with Pick-Nose Pete.

But when one friendly ghost is overly enthusiastic about his duties, the TV show Exceedingly Haunted Homes of England is called in to investigate. A hysterical fear of ghosts takes over the school, and the Invisible Friends are glad that they witness the chaos unheard and unseen. Too bad that the same cannot be said for the ghosts in the world beyond.

The disappearance of the Crown Jewels in a rather Poltergeist-like manner is trouble enough, but a frightening specter caught on film and a knight seen charging through streets and pedestrians spell trouble. Restoration of the peace between the ghostly and human realms may be too much for one boy to handle, but Tom hopes that the help of Grey Arthur and the Invisible Friends may be just what he needs to track down the cause of this supernatural chaos.

In this third installment to the Golden & Grey series, Louise Arnold takes the reader on an exciting adventure full of Laundry Runs, ancient castles, and the ever dark and dangerous woods.

Children's Literature

In the third book in the "Golden & Grey" series for young readers, Tom Golden and his ghost buddies, the Invisible Friends, have settled into life at school. Then Tom hears a rumor that the television show Exceedingly Haunted Homes of England is going to run a feature on his school. While the Invisible Friends are excited by the prospect of being on national television, Tom is worried that the delicate balance between the ghost world and the living world will be upset. In order to keep an eye on things, he volunteers to be the tea boy on the set. He is horrified to discover that the hostess is a "faintly real" (a ghost who can appear to be human) and that she may give away the existence of the Invisible Friends on the show. However, she proves to be an ally when a ghost is captured on film in another incident. Tom and his friends must come up with a plan to restore the balance between the two worlds, since humans are not supposed to be able to see ghosts. The resolution of the problem is clever and entirely within the powers of readers' willing suspension of disbelief. The characters in this series are charming and endearing, and the richly imagined world of the ghosts will delight readers. Reviewer: Ellen Welty