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Young readers are invited to explore the idea that not all ghosts are spooky. The story skillfully uses gentle rhyme and subtle humor to create an engaging and comforting Halloween tale that children can relate to. The story centers around Norton, a tiny mouse, who is entrusted with caring for a group of ghosts in an old Victorian mansion. Every Halloween, however, his perfectly quiet haunted house is turned into an overdecorated Haunted House filled with spooky people and things. Fed up with fright night, Norton ventures to find a new, quiet, Victorian mansion. But forgets to bring his friends the ghosts. Luckily the ghosts follow quickly behind him, and all are happy in their new safe and calm Victorian.