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  1. Features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist. Soon the boy makes acquaintance with the eponymous Thomas Kempe, ghost of a...

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  2. May 29, 2015 · An "ABC Weekend Special" (1979) starring Shane Sinutko.

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  4. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a low fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively, first published by Heinemann in 1973 with illustrations by Anthony Maitland. Set in present-day Oxfordshire, it features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist.

    • Penelope Lively, Pam Smy
    • 1973
  5. A gentle ghost story from a great storyteller set in Oxfordshire. The arrival of the ghost brings humour and some very funny situations but also a poignant sense of the passing of time and of changes over time to people and to places.

  6. Young James, after moving into a charming Victorian home with his family, finds that he has an invisible roommate - the ghost of Thomas Kempe. The ghost needs an apprentice, but when James refuses to cooperate, accidents and mysterious events plague the neighborhood.

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  8. Mar 14, 2018 · Thomas Kempe is the ghost of a seventeenth-century apothecary whose resting place has been disturbed by renovations when a new family moves into his home. His violent manifestations and messages become a serious problem for ten-year-old James, who inevitably gets blamed for everything by the annoyingly modern-minded people around him.

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