Type of bind: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: August 01, 2003
Publishing house: HarperCollins
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 3493604
Studio: HarperCollins
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Lily is Furious.
She can't believe she has to move again after her mom's break-up with the latest boyfriend. Now they're broke and they'll have to spend the winter in Uncle Wes's creepy summerhouse in Cape May, New Jersey.
And the place is crawling with ghosts.
From the spiteful teenager who mistakes Lily for her high school nemesis to the restless spirit of her eccentric Uncle Max, Lily is haunted by a host of unhappy phantoms. But why are they here? And what do they want?
With the help of some mysterious clues, Lily and her new friend, local boy Vaz, uncover a sinister plot. If they don't foil the villainous plan in time, they may end up doing some eternal haunting of their own.
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Reading this book with my daughter, she was a little more creeped out than I . . . but not much. This is good YA literature, which crosses over with both juvenile AND more sophisticated humour to appeal to adult readers as well. It's also reflective of the human condition, where a very grown-up-for-her-age character named Lily, 13, has been abandoned by her father and faces a gypsy lifestyle with her free-spirited mother, Arden. Lily and Arden move into their newest home in Cape May, which is a summer tourist town on the coast. Only it's not summer. Instead of tourists roaming the beaches and the Victorian homes, there are ghosts. Plenty of them.
Lily is left home alone in her Uncle Wes's huge home while her mother goes off to work at a jewelry and gift store in town. This is Arden's version of "home schooling." What Lily learns about is actually the home--and the ghosts that haunt it. With help from her new friend "Vaz," (who her mother calls a HOT TACO (!) and then punishes her for kissing him), Lily learns the history of her notorious family.
Some challenging vocabulary words for young readers and probably better suited for ages 13+. Good writing, creative storytelling and especially suited for this time of year (Halloween).
Michele Cozzens is the author of It's Not Your Mother's Bridge Club.
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Lily and her mother, Arden, come to stay in the old mansion that has been in Arden's family for 100 years. Arden is a bit flighty and she drags Lily to a new place every time she breaks up with another boyfriend.
Strange things happen in the creepy old house that only Lily notices, but can't explain. Lily, though she does not believe in the supernatural, soon realizes that the house is haunted. Lily and her new friend, Vaz, set out to discover what the ghosts want.
A cute mix of fantasy and mystery.
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Lily's mom has uprooted them and moved, again. This time Lily and her mother have moved into Uncle Wes's house in Cape May. But this is no ordinary house. It's big and the furniture is uncomfortable. Not only that, but weird things are happening. A face appears in the window, phone calls with no one at the other end and more.
Things start to look up when Lily meets Vaz - the cute Greek boy in town. But when Vaz tells her that she has ghosts, Lily has a hard time believing it. But she really does have ghosts!
I'm not really one for 'ghost stories' but this is a fun, ghost story with a solid human element to it -- maybe even a lesson or two. The twists and turns are good enough that I didn't see some coming. I think I would have liked a few more clues to the mysteries earlier in the story. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the characters so much that they really made the story move for me.
Lily is a quirky, independent spirit not too easily taken in by Vaz's good looks. Vaz is a good-hearted and true blue friend. The supporting characters of mother, uncle and librarian are all crafted enough for us to really know them. Then there are the ghosts - they are a quirky bunch but they really add to the fun.
I recommend this book for those who can suspend disbelief long enough to believe that the ghosts really are trying to tell Lily something. There's a few laughs in this story. So if you are looking for a ghost story that is all doom and gloom, you might want to look elsewhere.
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This story was very entertaining, but at very first the only thing that kept me interested was when the book switched over to the ghosts' point of view. I was bored with the Lily's background story that is overused too much. This book more and more grabbed my interest as I was slowly trying to untie the mystery that becomes more and more sticky and complicated. It was well worth reading, and it is the kind of story that makes you want to reread it over again to get a better picture of everything that happens at one time or another throughout the book.
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Lily a thirteen year old girl, who's been dragged from city to city had finally settled, atleast for now.A mysterious uncle comes and eats dinner with her mom and herself, but always says it's cold,and goes near the fire. Lily doesn't know what to make of him, but meanwhile she's preoccuoied who's her family. She soon gets so desperate that she asks her uncle. He tells her about his brother who dies from a fire, killing himself. And soon after that, his mother dies hanging herself from the living room sobbing for her lost son. Lily soon makes a friend( atleast she thinks so)who helps her uncover the truth of Max's death. Can they do it before Uncle Wesley kills them or worse? Read to find out!
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