A review by crystal_staley
The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

4.5

I absolutely loved this book! Suraya is an outsider. She doesn’t really have any friends and gets bullied at school. She has also inherited a ghost type being called a pelesit from her grandmother who most often takes the form of a grasshopper. Suraya soon learns about the ghost’s powers and that he doesn’t always use them to do nice things. I loved the cultural aspects of this story also with the Malaysian setting and folklore. There was so much emotion throughout and the ending brought a tear to my eye. Such a special story.