Sunday, June 24, 2012

Anya's Ghost

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol  221 pp.




Russian immigrant teenager, Anya, is trying hard to just be an American teenager. She is suffering from all the usual teenage angst about her appearance, lack of popularity, crushes, etc. Her mother is too caught up in the ways of her old country. After an argument with her best friend, Anya goes for a walk in the park and falls down an abandoned well. She is shocked to find a skeleton there and even more surprised by the presence of the ghost of a teenage girl. Anya is rescued but ends up taking a small piece of bone and the ghost with her. At first the ghost is friendly and helpful but things are not as they seem. Anya ends up learning a lot about herself and her strengths during the course of her good/bad encounter with the ghost.

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