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|title=How To Scare The Pants Off Your Pets (Ghost Buddy)

|author=Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver

|publisher=Scholastic

|date=February 2013

|summary=A disappointing entry to this series with the boy tormented by a friendly ghost's ego. The lack of focus on school life in favour of various animal antics does not endear itself.

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Billy is the only person who can see the ghost of Hoover Porterhouse the Third that he shares a bedroom with. While nobody else knows about the phantom's existence, Billy certainly knows about his character – his arrant braggadocio and the many self-serving rules he demands he lives his afterlife by. The problem is that that same lack of respect and responsibility is what is keeping Hoover in Billy's life and not moving on, and his attitude is so bad he's been grounded by the Higher-Ups in charge of such things. Billy's not one to live with an annoyance like that, though, and decides to prove the Hoove can be responsible – and caring for a pet should be the obvious proof with which to start…