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Meet Araminta Spookie. She’s not afraid of ghosts, bats, secret passageways, or haunted houses. Learn more about the Araminta Spookie books written by Angie Sage, author of Septimus Heap.

As Araminta has discovered, every explorer of the spookie world (those who hunt ghosts and vampires and show no fear when faced with mysterious dark passages) needs certain things. Here is a list of some of Araminta’s Spookie Essentials.

	Flashlight

	Ball of string

	Chocolate

	Cheese-and-onion chips

	Soda

As Araminta says, “You need a flashlight because secret passages are always dark, and you need a ball of string so that you can find your way out again. . . . You need emergency chocolate supplies, as you never know how long you are going to be in a secret passage, do you?”

	Bats

	Strawberry Jell-O

	Large bag of assorted spiders

	Massive tub of strangled ghost squealers

	Huge box of balloons

	Giant bag of flour

Spookie Greetings

Watch out for traps, particularly at the beginning and end of a tunnel. How often has an intrepid tunneler battled through the most secret of tunnels, only to come to grief in a cunning trap at the end of her journey? Alas, far too often, as we at the Secret Tunnel Handy Hint Handbook know to our cost.