Give Up the Ghost

✍ Scribed by Crewe, Megan

• Book ID: 106918791
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780805089301

✦ Synopsis

From School Library Journal

Grade 8–10—A supernatural twist on the "Mean Girls" plot provides page-turning action. Cass McKenna sees ghosts. Her first spotting was her sister Paige, who failed to pass on to the afterlife following a drowning accident. Unfortunately for Cass, Paige and the ghosts that inhabit her school are her only friends. A junior-high bullying incident left her jaded and angry, and as revenge, she uses her supernatural informants to spill her classmates' juiciest secrets. When the student council VP discovers her covert ability, Cass unwillingly helps him contact his dead mother, leading to changes in her social status. Cass isn't the most lovable of protagonists, but her resentment is well developed and convincingly sustained throughout. Mysterious plot elements and the budding relationship between Cass and the VP will quickly engage reluctant readers.—_Lindsay Cesari, Baldwinsville School District, NY_ END

Review

“Crewe’s first effort will make readers wonder what else she’s got up her sleeve.”—_Kirkus Reviews_

“This coming-of-age novel avoids unrealistically neat moments of closure—it will make readers hurt, and maybe even believe.”—_Publishers Weekly_

“A supernatural twist on the “Mean Girls” plot provides page-turning action. ... Mysterious plot elements and the budding relationship between Cass and the VP will quickly engage reluctant readers.”—_School Library Journal _

“A school-dynamics story with a great original hook.”—_BCCB _