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|title=The Last of the Spirits

|sort=Last of the Spirits, The

|publisher=Bloomsbury Children's Books

|date=November 2014

|website=http://chrispriestley.blogspot.co.uk

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|summary=Stunning take on Dickens's classic Christmas story which is a must-read whatever your age.

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Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.