Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

"Jeremy Johnson Johnson has the rare ability to hear ghosts’ voices, and that’s how Jacob Grimm’s ghost becomes his mentor and guardian. Thanks to Jacob, Jeremy’s a whiz at school, knows fairy tales inside out, and has an advantage in negotiating the romantic interest of amber-eyed Ginger Boultinghouse. But someone has it in for Jeremy and Ginger, a someone whose malignant purpose gives this buoyant, intelligent story a shiver of horror as dark as any of Grimms’. The stock figures and situations of Grimms’ tales glimmer in McNeal’s small-town, middle-American setting, like tantalizing clues in a story that becomes ever darker even as it sparkles with the dignified, affectionate voice of its ghostly narrator. Sprightly, assured and original." --The Toronto Star

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