This book is spooky, swashbuckling fun. Lewis is a very shy and terribly lonely boy. He was very close to his great-grandfather, who while odd (he talked to walls, or so it seemed), understood Lewis in a way that no one else did. When the great-grandfather dies, he leaves his crumbling seaside mansion to Lewis’s family, with the condition that they live in it for six months. Lewis excitedly chooses a the tower room for his bedroom, but soon discovers that the room is haunted by the ghosts of seven pirates, who enlist Lewis’s aid in retaking their sunken ship, now on display on the local museum. The book is silly fun, with serious and meaningful subplots: Lewis’s alliance with the pirates serves to make him weirder than he already was, but also helps to draw him out of his shell, helps him to make a friend, and teaches him what he is capable of. Really well done, and another page-turner.
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