The Last of the Spirits: Chris Priestley

Sam and Lizzie are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard for warmth, Sam and Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift, shortly followed by the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man. He warns Sam about the future which awaits such a bitter heart, and so begins Sam`s journey led by terrifying spirits through the past, present and future, after which Sam must decide whether to take the man, Scrooge`s, life or not.

A perfectly layered, tense and supremely satisfying twist on one of Dickens` most popular books, cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership.