GRIFFIN'S CASTLE

By Jenny Nimmo

Synopsis

After years of having moved around, eleven-year-old Dinah determines to make a huge, dilapidated old mansion into a home for her mother and herself, but the wild beasts she summons from a stone wall to protect her may also imprison her.

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Narrator	Greg Georgeson
Length	6hrs
Catalogue No.	615799
Publisher	Methuen

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