No Such Thing as Ghosts
core novel 2011 Dragonbreath
Record
| First published | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.27 (1,144 ratings, collected 2026-09-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780803735279 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
No Such Thing as Ghosts, the fifth Dragonbreath book, opens with Danny Dragonbreath and his friend Wendell having worked out what they consider an optimal strategy for maximizing candy on Halloween night. Their carefully laid plans are disrupted when Danny's father insists the pair bring along Christiana Vanderpool, a rigid skeptic who scoffs at the very idea of dragons and other supposedly mythical creatures. When the school bully dares the group to explore a mansion rumored to be haunted, they reluctantly agree, expecting to find nothing but cobwebs and prove the dare pointless. Instead they discover the house's supernatural reputation is entirely deserved, encountering genuine otherworldly inhabitants, including an especially unsettling clown, and are forced to reconsider everything Christiana was so sure of.
Where it sits
- Universe: Dragonbreath
- Series: Dragonbreath core; position 5 of 11 in the series' recorded order
- Author: T. Kingfisher
Notes
- From the series record (Dragonbreath): Eleven-volume illustrated middle-grade chapter-book series (Dial Books, 2009-2016) following Danny Dragonbreath, a talking dragon attending a school otherwise full of reptiles and amphibians, whose comic misadventures regularly involve genuine magical creatures and events (fairies, were-creatures, ghosts, curses). Author-illustrated throughout; every volume mixes prose chapters with full-page comic-style illustrated sequences. Confirmed traditionally published from first release, not web-serialized.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Dragonbreath: position 5 of 11: previous Lair of the Bat Monster (2011) · next Revenge of the Horned Bunnies (2012)
Sources
- Ursula Vernon - Wikipedia
- Dragonbreath series - FictionDB
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306826/dragonbreath-5-by-ursula-vernon/
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