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Ghosts of Gastown

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"Ghosts of Gastown gives a different twist on how a young person may navigate grief and the big feelings that come with major life changes." — Meagan Richards, CCBN

"A riveting paranormal novel about ghosts, grief, and the power of family and friends to pull us out of the darkest of places. I couldn't get enough!" — Jonathan Pongratz, author of the Reaper series

Twelve-year-old Hope Graves can see the dead. But nobody believes her. Not even her best friend. When Hope and her mom move to the Gastown area of Vancouver, their new home isn't exactly as she imagined. The ancient apartment sits over a weird crystal shop, she misses her dad, and ghosts lurk around every corner. The worst part? The strange boy whose parents own the shop can see spirits too, and he won't stop bugging her about it.

Hope tries to avoid Oliver, but when a ghost appears in her bedroom with a haunting plea, he's the only person she can turn to for help. Trying to banish the spirit only leads them down a twisted path far more dangerous than any ghost. Something is hunting the souls of Gastown, and it's closing in on its next victim.

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      October 15, 2024
      A child grieving the loss of her dad suddenly finds herself accosted by ghosts who are demanding rescue from a mysterious threat. Hardly has 12-year-old Hope arrived with her widowed mom--a popular horror novelist, appropriately enough--in their new apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia, than a ghost she comes to dub Victorian Dead Girl, or VDG for short, steps out of the closet in a flood of spectral water to make cryptic demands. Ever since the accident that claimed her father's life, Hope has become used to seeing ghosts, but in their historic Gastown neighborhood, she finds herself not only encountering scarily urgent spirits but also up against a supernatural devorator, who's eating ghosts before moving on to the living. Worse yet, the devorator turns out to be the pet of an even more terrifying, scythe-wielding reaper who's actually after Hope. This piling on of villains and threats may add additional drama to the climactic face-off but at times feels overdone. Hope, who's cued white, befriends her new neighbor Oliver, a French Canadian boy with two moms who presents Black and who also has second sight. A whiplash-inducing reveal involves Hope's mother, who previously sent her to a therapist for her supposed visions and reacts with hostility to any talk of ghosts from Oliver or his Maman, who's a medium. Short on logic but long on spooky spectral encounters.(Supernatural. 9-13)

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