Who read the book The Boggart??

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1. Marie
   

   The summary of The Boggort is given below.

   A timeless spirit of mischief, the boggart has lived in Castle Keep since ages past, wreaking havoc upon the MacDevons who've lived there. His job, as far as he's concerned, is to keep life "interesting" for his beloved family. He's been too busy filching apples, knotting shoelaces, and trashing the kitchen to pay much attention to the march of history. But when the last MacDevon dies, the boggart has to come to terms with a new set of owners: the Volnik family from Toronto, who have no intention of inhabiting the drafty tumbledown castle that they've inherited from their great-uncle MacDevon. The sulking boggart is most displeased to find himself mistakenly shipped to Canada inside an antique desk destined for Emily Volnik's room. But once out and about, he is fascinated by this new world of peanut butter, pizza, and electric gizmos. Filching oatcakes quickly becomes a thing of the past as the boggart finds all sorts of new ways he can drive this modern family crazy. Possessing the t.v. set? No problem. Booby-trapping the house for Halloween? Well, if kids can do it, boggarts can do it. The traffic lights in downtown Toronto? Wouldn't they look prettier if they were another color? But when the boggart's pranks send Emily to the hospital, she and her brother Jessup must find a way to pry the boggart out of his new home and send him back to the castle where he belongs.
   Worst of all, the boggart's tricks with the electric streetcars and his larger-than-life special effects in the theater have attracted the attention of some unsavory characters. The trashy tabloid "Beyond Belief" has reporters canvassing the Volnik house, eager to make them into a news story. And the creepy psychologist Dr. Stigmore, who has already insinuated himself into Mrs. Volnik's confidence, sees furniture flying through the air and tells the Volnik parents that a poltergeist is feeding off Emily's adolescent angst, and the only way to return their lives to normal is to commit her to his institution.
   To the rescue comes Tommy Cameron, the Volniks' friend from Scotland. Emily and Jessup realize that young Tommy has known about the boggart from the start, and has been missing the mischievous spirit even more than he's missed his old neighbor the MacDevon. Hearing of their plight, Tommy sends Emily a montage of Scottish postcards for her room, hoping to remind the boggart that he, too, is homesick. This plan works well—too well. As the children and their friends try to communicate with the petulant spirit, the boggart barricades himself in Jessup's computer, deep in the forbidden black hole that Jessup and his geeky friends have programmed into his favorite video game. The boggart's message comes through loud and clear: he is speaking Gaelic and saying, "I want to go home." Jessup obliges, and downloads the entire computer game, boggart and all, onto a disk which he mails to Tommy Cameron in Scotland.
   Back in Scotland, the mail carrier swears his van is haunted when he delivers Tommy's Christmas package all the way from Canada. And the video game that Tommy finds inside seems to have a mind of its own! When Tommy crashes into the black hole himself, the boggart bursts forth from his own computer, home at last and free. The happy boggart returns to Castle Keep, ready to welcome its new owners with a whole host of boggart tricks.

   
    

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2. Guest5924
   

   i read the boggart 3 years ago so i don't really remember details but you can ask me whatever and i can try to answer you.

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