The horribly haunted school
Mrs Merryandrew is worried about Monty believing in ghosts and sends him off to the Brinsley Codd School for sensible thought. As soon as Monty arrives at the school he realises it's haunted - by Brinsley Codd himself - founder of the school and the most sensible person in history.
Juvenile fiction, Ghosts, Schools, Humorous stories, Ghost stories
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy (born in Whakatane, New Zealand) is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.

Her books "The Haunting" and "The Changeover" both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. She has written a little less than 50 novels, including the recent "Alchemy" in 2002. Among her children's books, "A Lion in the Meadow", "The Seven Chinese Brothers", and "The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate" are considered national classics.