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Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony

By Chris Riddell
Series: Goth Girl
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A beautiful fresh cover for the fourth title in Chris Riddell's Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony. This spooky mystery adventure is packed full of beautiful black-and-white illustrations and is perfect for children aged 8 - 11! Lord Goth is throwing... Read More
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A beautiful fresh cover for the Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series. Ada and her friends solve a musical mystery in the fourth book in the series Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony.

Celebrate beautiful new covers for the Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series. Ada and her friends solve a musical mystery in the fourth book in the series Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony.

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A beautiful fresh cover for the fourth title in Chris Riddell's Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony. This spooky mystery adventure is packed full of beautiful black-and-white illustrations and is perfect for children aged 8 - 11!

Lord Goth is throwing a music festival at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, with performances from the finest composers in the land. Ada can't wait, but it's quite distracting when her grandmother is trying to find her father a fashionable new wife, there's a faun living in her wardrobe, and Maltravers is up to his old tricks. Ada must make sure everything goes to plan, and luckily help is at hand from a very interesting house guest...

For more in the deliciously funny dark series, check out the first book and winner of the Costa Children's Book Award, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse, followed by Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death and Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright.

Series: Goth Girl

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  • Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony
    Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony
    A beautiful fresh cover for the fourth title in Chris Riddell's Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony. This spooky mystery adventure is packed full of beautiful black-and-white illustrations and is perfect for children aged 8 - 11! Lord Goth is throwing a music festival at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, with performances from the finest composers in the...
    By Chris Riddell
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  • Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright
    Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright
    A beautiful fresh cover for the third title in Chris Riddell's Costa Award-winning Goth Girl series: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright. This funny adventure, featuring Ada Goth and her friends, is packed with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations throughout, and is perfect for girls and boys aged 8 to 11! People are flocking to Ghastly-Gorm Hall from far and wide to...
    By Chris Riddell
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  • Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
    Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
    A beautiful fresh cover for the paperback edition of Chris Riddell's Costa Award-winning Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse. Illustrated in black and white throughout, full of adventure and dark humour, it is perfect for children aged 8 to 11! Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall....
    By Chris Riddell
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035022649

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 131.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 162g

Pages: 224

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Chris Riddell Series: Goth Girl Young Adult Young Adult Mystery & Thriller

About the Author

Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award 2013. His previous work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, the Muddle Earth and Scavenger series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.

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