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|title=Mind If I Read Your Mind? (Ghost Buddy)

|author=Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781407132297

|pages=176

|publisher=Scholastic

|date=August 2012

|summary=No sense of Caspar's tweeness, as this other friendly ghost for primary schoolers gets tricksy - and crabby, too. It holds promise for more fun elsewhere in the series' life-span.

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Every boy needs a mentor, and Billy Broccoli is no exception. His, however, is The Hoove - a ghost, who is able to impart a hundred years' worth of nous and savvy, and yet still able to use words like ''doofus'' as if he was a real, live fourteen year old. With nobody else knowing about this friendship, life is certainly lively for Billy, but also helped - when a show-and-tell-type competitive school demonstration leads to the magic the title suggests. But can Billy really rely on such an opinionated, moody helper, when the crunch comes?

I hope however that I would rate the rest of this on-going series as better. It suffers a little by being too much a fan of baseball, and while ''math'' has been edited to ''maths'' it does come across as very American. And despite being peppered with subtly-drawn life lessons - for Billy and for The Hoove - the ending, without giving too much away, is clunky and lame, and I would defy anyone to find a child who would actually agree with it.

The series started [[Zero to Hero - Ghost Buddy by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver|here]].

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