- Publisher: Puffin Books
- Available in: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-9377301521
- Published: September 14, 2026
Secrets, sabotage, story time!
Meet the Book Ghosts—Saumya, Twisha, Jay, Yuvi and Zeenat—a super-secret club of book lovers with a mission: sneaking ‘silly’ and ‘banned’ books into their school library.
But when a mean defamation campaign targets the town’s free mobile library, the Book Ghosts must take on their biggest mission yet. Who’s behind the mess? Can they outsmart the troublemaker before the library is forced to shut down? And can five determined kids prove that books—and the freedom to read—belong to everyone?
Join the Book Ghosts on a thrilling adventure and discover the power of courage, friendship and stories.
Resources
While I was writing The Book Ghosts, I read extensively about banned and challenged books all over the world. In the book, I’ve listed a few links that are easy to verify, but there’s so much more! For one, a lot of writers use the word “banned” quite loosely–perhaps as click bait! “Banned” books seem so much more intriguing than “challenged” books, don’t they?
During the Banned Books Quiz as well as in the reasons listed at the end of the book, I referred to a range of sources. Here are a few of them, if you’d like to read more!
- https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/the-adventures-of-captain-underpants-series/
- https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/and-tango-makes-three/
- https://theweek.com/articles/459795/america-surprising-banned-books
- https://readingpartners.org/blog/five-childrens-books-you-didnt-know-were-banned/
- https://pepelt21.com/2022/05/21/sylvester-and-the-magic-pebble-the-undefeated/
- https://www.elpl.org/blogs/post/banned-book-week-wheres-waldo/
- https://thehopefulheroine.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/banned-book-review-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/
- https://www.hercampus.com/school/uprm/why-alice-wonderland-was-banned-throughout-20th-century/
In addition to these links, you can also find lots of social media posts and blog posts, which I haven’t listed here. Like Alice–from the well-known banned book–you can go down a rabbit hole of research, discovering all kinds of incredible things!