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The second book of Terry Pratchett’s “Johnny Maxwell” trilogy, Johnny and the Dead <\/a>sees twelve-year-old Johnny and his friends battling to try to save the local graveyard.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Johnny Maxwell is using a shortcut through the local\u00a0cemetery to reach his home, when he meets the\u00a0spirit of Alderman Thomas Bowler. This meeting shows\u00a0\u00a0Johnny\u00a0he has the ability to\u00a0see and speak to\u00a0the\u00a0dead and soon Johnny\u00a0meets the\u00a0other deceased occupants of the cemetery.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0a massive progress-obsessed\u00a0 conglomerate buys the neglected cemetery as a\u00a0new construction site, the only people more dismayed than the living inhabitants of Blackbury are the dead ones.\u00a0 But stopping a big corporation from building office buildings there will be no easy task.<\/p>\n

Someone should have told the council the dead are not going to take it lying down . . . especially since it’s Halloween tomorrow.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\"Johnny<\/a>
Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The book\u00a0has also been made into a 1995 TV serial starring Andrew Falvey <\/a>as Johnny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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