Scratch’s spell, Zee starts seeing frightening things, including what feels like… looks like… a ghost. While everyone in town seems to be falling under Mr.
Scratch, who comes off like a self-help guru on steroids. After an altercation with Nellie, the middle school gets a new principal, Mr. Bullied at school, Zee’s only friend is Elijah, an African-American boy who’s got a bully of his own: his father, who is constantly at his brainy son who’d rather do science projects than hit the gym with his dad. She’s living with her 21-year-old sister, Abby, who’s dropped out of college and taken a job at a diner to keep their family going while her widowed father is out of state looking for work. Zee Puckett is a middle schooler who loves ghost stories. Ghost Girl is definitely on my must-talk list: a girl who discovers that she has a gift for seeing and communicating with ghosts, a new school principal that’s way too creepy, a missing Kindergarten teacher, and three friends that have to stand against an entire town that’s fallen under a spell? Tell me more!
They’re ready for spookier, and I love reading and booktalking these to them. My library kids are hungry for it, having gone past Goosebumps and cleared my Holly Black and Mary Downing Hahn books off the shelves. Horror for tweens is on the rise, and I couldn’t be happier.
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