Too Ghoul For School

For young iPod readers, the exciting series of adventures from Egmont publishing.

We developed the Too Ghoul for School app while working for a great little production company called Missing Ink Studios. This app combines in-app purchase functionality, a great coveflow-like bookcase and the award winning Eucalyptus e-reader library, developed by Things Made Out Of Other Things. All making for a wonderful reading experience. This was a great app to develop as Too Ghoul for School is a fast-paced fiction series full of humour and adventure for 7-10 year-olds. With their brilliant blend of ghosts, monsters, toilets and schoolboys, these books are yucky, gunky and packed with laughs - perfect for young boys and reluctant readers.

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The Story

St Sebastian's School in Grimesford is the pits. No, really it is. Built on the boggy remains of a medieval plague pit, this once proud school's dodgy nineteenth-century foundations are causing it to slowly subside. Every year it sinks a little further into the ground, and every year the ghosts of the plague victims underneath become more disgruntled. All they want is to rest in peace, but during term time all they hear is the clatter of hundreds of pairs of high school kids' feet overhead.

The ghosts - egged on by their spooky ringleader, Edith Codd - decide to get their own back, and they're willing to play dirty. Really dirty. They swarm into the St Sebastian's sewer system and start to kick up a stink the only way they know how. Popping up through pipes and taps, they invade the school, morphing into monsters and zombies, performing possessions and hauntings, and generally causing as much mischief as is inhumanly possible.

But the ghosts haven't reckoned on a new kid and his mates in year seven. Can James and his friends get to the bottom of the problem and flush out the ghosts, or will every term at St Sebastian's be plagued with misery?

Too Ghoul for School iPhone App, Enhanced Edition

This enhanced ebook, specifically designed for the iPhone, includes:

• Carousel menu to browse and store titles
• Free first chapter for all titles not yet purchased
• In-app purchasing functionality to purchase other titles in the Too Ghoul series

eBook features

• The full novel, which feels like reading a book, not a web page, with page turning so natural you won't even notice it, thanks to the Eucalyptus reader
• High quality fonts and typesetting to provide the optimal reading experience, meaning you can get lost in the story, not frustrated by the text
• Resizing text with a pinch of your fingers at any time

* information correct as of April 2010. All app content © Egmont