Wildspark: A Ghost Machine Adventure

Prue Haywood's family is still shattered by the death of her older brother a year ago. When a stranger arrives at the farm, he offers to join the Ghost Guild, which has developed a technology to capture spirits of the dead in animal-like machines and bring them back to life. Prue needs to find a way to get the ghost machines to remember the people they used to be, but if she succeeds, society could come apart. Hardy has a laser-like sense of what appeals to her readership.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2019
Publisher: Scholastic

Winner of the Blue Peter Award 2020, this mind-bending adventure from the author of Brightstorm! A year after the death of her older brother, Prue Haywood's family is still shattered by grief. But everything changes when a stranger arrives at the farm. In the city of Medlock, a secretive guild of inventors has developed a way to capture spirits of the dead in animal-like machines, bringing them back to life. Prue knows that the Ghost Guild might hold the key to bringing her brother back, so she seizes the stranger's offer to join as an apprentice. But to find her brother, she needs to find a way to get the ghost machines to remember the people they used to be. Yet if Prue succeeds, all of society could come apart. Hardy has a laser-like sense of what appeals to her readership - Literary Review

Weight: 308g
Dimension: 194 x 133 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781407191553