Ghost Scouts: Mayhem at Camp Croak!

By Taylor Dolan

The fourth in this hilarious, ghoulish story of Lexie Wilde and her ghost scout pals.

Lexie Wild is having a rollicking time at Camp Croak with her ghoulish pals. That is until the smarmy scouts from Happy Hollow issue a deadly ancient challenge. If the Ghost Scouts lose, their beloved camp will be destroyed... Lexie must summon all her courage if the Ghost Scouts are to defeat the wicked Euphemia Vile and her crew. But watch out! The malicious whispering snakes are loose! Maybe working together is the answer...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
• Release date: Sep 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781913101909

Taylor Dolan

TAYLOR DOLAN was born into a house of stories and raised in Texas. Her mother used to read to her every night, and together they made their way through the worlds of Narnia, Oz and many more. Sometimes, when Taylor is feeling blue, her mother stills reads to her and does the best voices for all the characters. Being a happy book nerd, she attended the Cambridge School of Art for her Master's Degree in Children's Book Illustration. She was overjoyed to find a whole herd of booknerds to spend time quality time reading quietly together with. She now lives in Arkansas, US, while using her imagination to pretend she still lives in Cambridge.

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GHOST SCOUTS: MAYHEM AT CAMP CROAK

is a GUPPY BOOK

First published in the UK in 2023 by

Guppy Books,

Bracken Hill,

Cotswold Road,

Oxford OX2 9JG

Text and illustrations © Taylor Dolan, 2023

Cover and insides designed by Ness Wood

978 1 913 10190 9

The rights of Taylor Dolan to be identified as the author of this work have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permissions of the publishers.

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This book is dedicated to

my divine therapist Beth,

thank you for helping me

navigate a tricky world.

There’s this voice in your head, right? It’s not the voice that sings earworm songs on a loop over and over and over and over again. You know the ones I mean –

Who let the dogs out?

Who? Who? Who? Who?

(If you are not familiar with that jam, consider yourself blessed to the extreme. The Baha Men definitely made a pact with the devil when they came up with that one. Even just writing it down means I am in for a good four days solid of Who Who Who-ing.)

So it’s not the earworm voice and it’s not the voice that tells you to look both ways before you cross the road so you don’t end up like a pulpy armadillo pancake, a buzzard’s dream snacky-snack. No, this voice ain’t looking out for you at all. It comes from somewhere dark in your stomach. It’s the one that tells you awful things about yourself like "nobody wants to