If you like zombies, you're going to love this book, and probably love this series.

Johnny Graphic is twelve years old and he's realized his dream of becoming the youngest news photographer in the Plains Republic. He's intrepid and feisty and sometimes fearless when he oughtn't to be. Like any good journalist, he has a passion for truth and justice. He sometimes gets into nasty pickles. The year is 1935 and in Johnny’s world ghosts are very real. But unlike our ghosts, Johnny's are creatures of physics, not supernatural phenomena. Most wraiths are friendly to the living. But a few ancient ghost assassins are on the warpath, out to kill Johnny’s sister Melanie—for reasons the kids don’t even begin to understand. The two siblings have to unravel a deadly ghost conspiracy that reaches around the globe and threatens the lives of millions. Or die trying!

Setting: The Johnny Graphic Adventures Trilogy is an alternative-history ghost tale set in the mid-1930s on a continent much like ours. But the First Border War of the 1860s, instead of uniting a vast country, tore it apart—into four separate nations. Johnny, his sister Mel, his Uncle Louie, and Louie's ward Nina Bain live in the metropolis of Zenith, in the Plains Republic. (His parents are not present because they vanished in a blizzard years earlier, off studying the ghostly ice wolves of Okkatek Island.)  Johnny works in a hectic, noisy newsroom right out of the The Front Page or His Girl Friday. Think any lively 1930s police drama or screwball comedy, and you'll have an idea of what Johnny's world looks like. He and his friends tool around in big touring cars and take long journeys in flying boats like the Como Eagle and Gianelli Z-509. Of course, Johnny and Nina can also fly on horseback with any of the members of the First Zenith Cavalry Brigade—a troop of mounted ghost soldiers of the First Border War who serve the Graphic family. But Johnny's not all that fond of clinging to a ghost horse thousands of feet up in the air. But he'll do it, if he must.

Age Range: 9 to 13

Book Lessons: A real "Johnny Graphic, Ace Photographer" is quite improbable, of course. But I hope to impart the notion that it's never too early to find that special dream and start working toward making it a reality. And one must understand that there will be all kinds of roadblocks in the way. One must work and work and work and never give up, even in the face of rejection—if you believe that dream is worth it.

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