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Red Aurora Over Australia

For the first time ever, more electric vehicles were sold over a 12 month period in the UK than gas cars.

Before the sinking, the Titanic victim had gambled the deed to the house away in a card game and in the present day, someone else was using that deed to claim the house so they could demolish it. The ghosts and the kids went to court to contest this, and the big twist was that they were able to summon the guy from the Titanic to testify about exactly what had happened.

I cannot remember what this book was called and “children’s book ghosts Titanic” is too vague a query to be useful to search engines.

What I remember is:

The judge who oversaw the court case was called Judge Lublock and people nicknamed him “Old Lawbooks”.

One of the rules for ghosts in the story was that ghosts can only leave the place they haunt on Halloween Night.

I read this as a kid in the early 2000s, when it was a library book already a few years old, so it was probably published in the 1990s or 1980s.

The cover showed the mirror image of the man on the sinking Titanic moaning because he was having a heart attack. I would say it was in a similar realistic art style to the covers of 80s/90s Bruce Coville books like My Teacher is an Alien and Nina Tanleven.

I do know that it was not a Nina Tanleven book, however. It was also not the Blossom Culp book that involves the Titanic. I did read both of those series as a kid, but it was not from either one.

It’s The Ghost From Beneath the Sea by Bill Brittain!

The cover I remember is from the paperback version: