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Give Up the Ghost
by Megan Crewe
I didn't just read this book, I inhaled it.
From the very first line--"You would think it'd be easy to get along with a person after she's dead."--I was hooked. In so many respects, seventeen-year-old Cassie was me--angry, isolated, at the bottom of the high school pecking order--only I did not have a dead sister hanging around, who only I could see.
Cassie can see ghosts. She doesn't know why. The first she ever sees is her sister Paige, the night of the prom, just after Paige drowned. Cassie was twelve then, and already antagonistic toward a sister who seemed to be mom's pet, as Paige was pretty, popular, and outgoing. But four years later Cassie is a year older than Paige, and the only person Paige can see and talk to.
Cassie can see other ghosts, like Norris and Bitzy, who hang around the high school. Unseen by anyone else, the ghosts listen to faculty as well as student body chatter and give Cassie the dirt on the mean popular kids, which Cassie uses to keep them at a distance. Yep. Cassie's hated, but at least she's no longer picked on. And she's totally fine with that, because human beings are basically crap.
Enter the student body V.P., Tim, who Cassie thinks a first class hypocrite, the way he turns his sad smile on all the suck-up freshmen girls, just because his mom recently died.
Then someone throws her life in a spin by leaving her a note, saying he knows her secret and wants to talk to her.
The reader will probably guess that the note involves contacting ghosts, but how, why, the relationship between Tim and Cassie, the changing relationship between Cassie and the other kids, between her and her family, spins out resonant with emotional truth. Fascinating ghosts, a great voice, and an unexpected moment of profound numinosity made me love this book.
From the very first line--"You would think it'd be easy to get along with a person after she's dead."--I was hooked. In so many respects, seventeen-year-old Cassie was me--angry, isolated, at the bottom of the high school pecking order--only I did not have a dead sister hanging around, who only I could see.
Cassie can see ghosts. She doesn't know why. The first she ever sees is her sister Paige, the night of the prom, just after Paige drowned. Cassie was twelve then, and already antagonistic toward a sister who seemed to be mom's pet, as Paige was pretty, popular, and outgoing. But four years later Cassie is a year older than Paige, and the only person Paige can see and talk to.
Cassie can see other ghosts, like Norris and Bitzy, who hang around the high school. Unseen by anyone else, the ghosts listen to faculty as well as student body chatter and give Cassie the dirt on the mean popular kids, which Cassie uses to keep them at a distance. Yep. Cassie's hated, but at least she's no longer picked on. And she's totally fine with that, because human beings are basically crap.
Enter the student body V.P., Tim, who Cassie thinks a first class hypocrite, the way he turns his sad smile on all the suck-up freshmen girls, just because his mom recently died.
Then someone throws her life in a spin by leaving her a note, saying he knows her secret and wants to talk to her.
The reader will probably guess that the note involves contacting ghosts, but how, why, the relationship between Tim and Cassie, the changing relationship between Cassie and the other kids, between her and her family, spins out resonant with emotional truth. Fascinating ghosts, a great voice, and an unexpected moment of profound numinosity made me love this book.