Elizabeth Cody Kimmel's novel, Suddenly Supernatural, is set in a school library where the main character, Kat, sees a spirit and must find out what the spirit wants in order to set it free. Kat is not just an ordinary teen. Her mom is a medium ( a person who sees spirits and communicates with th...
School Spirit is the first book in the Suddenly Supernatural series. In this book we meet Kat whose Mom is super cool, but a bit of an embarrassment to Kat. I know you're thinking my life would be sooo much better if my Mom was cool. But is your Mom a medium who has seances with weird noises comi...
I went into this book unaware that it was a novelization, thinking the movie was maybe based on a book. It is clear from reading this that it is a novelization, and as such it was kind of a slog for me - it felt like reading a description of a movie.I liked Norman and the concept of his being abl...
In the second book of the Suddenly Supernatural series-Scaredy Kat, kat's little trip to the abandon house across the street my have been more that expected. All she wanted was to have a look inside, but what she finds is the spirit of a boy. The thing is, she cant figure out what happened to him...
Kat can see spirits. Her friend Jac is a very good musician but is not sure if she wants to keep on playing. Kat, Jac and Jac's mother go to a hotel with some special events for musicians. Kat sees that there is a spirit in her room that is confused and doesn't know it's dead. Kat tries telling t...
Oh my goodness. I loved this book. I had so much fun reading it, and I absolutely adored Moxie and her friends and the whole set-up. The talent show and coming clean totally cracked me up. Although Moxie is 13 (and this is totally perfect for the story), this same story would have worked if the g...
Hopefully I can coax my group members to make this an all-read! This ghostly mystery is laden with intrigue and reader appeal for grades 4-7.When Anita moves to Alaska temporarily, she meets a new friend who is just as interested as she is in reading and....ghosts! Anita's parents are "taking a b...
Mulgrew Middle School Summer Trip to Paris Madame Chavotte: French Teacher and Chaperone. Built like a tank, with only one eyebrow. Charlotte McGrath: Vault of European Information.In Command of All Details. Bonnie Roberts: Astral Traveler and Channeler of Messages from the Universe. Janet Graham...
It was definitely a boy’s face, I was sure of that. He had dark hair and might have been around nine or ten years old. Beyond that, I couldn’t see much. The thing is, when I returned to my window and looked out, there was nothing there. And I had seen nothing through the v...
In January 1925, winter settled over Alaska like an iron blanket. There were snowdrifts, high winds, and blizzards. Temperatures often dropped as low as thirty or forty degrees below zero. Once winter came, the people of Nome were totally cut off from the outside world. But that January of 1925, ...
I crumpled to the floor and pulled my shoes off. But there was no red sticky substance anywhere on them — not even the soles. The silence was deafening. But the feelings of terror, and the sharp pain in my chest, were subsidi...
Mrs. Redd was calling to us loudly to remember where we parked. Given that we had come on an enormous bus with a massive green leprechaun painted on the side, I didn’t feel her concern was necessary. What did concern me was that the Beige Girl was still on the bus when we boarded it that morning....
But when you’ve had the flu for three days and all you’ve eaten is soup, toast, and a little ice cream, getting through a Monday can feel like crossing the Sahara Desert. On foot. With no sunblock. And no Gatorade. And a very heavy book bag to drag around. The only good ne...
on the Brink of Paris Three Madame Chavotte woke us at seven thirty the next morning, making me feel like one of those army trainees awakening in the barracks at dawn to a barrage of commands from a towering military figure. We had to make our beds, but no one was ordered to do push-ups or clean ...
Scanlon gestured for us to gather around her. “Okay, girls, here’s the plan. I need to run up to editorial to check in with my team and go over a few quick items. Then I’ll show you around the office a little, and we’ll get you sitting in with some of the different departments. So for now, I’m go...