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While visiting her grandmother's farm in Tennessee for the summer, Avery May Hilliard, twelve, researches the haunted house on her family's property with the help of a visiting teenage filmmaker named Julian. The ghost mystery takes a backseat to an authentic-feeling story of a twelve-year-old girl's complicated feelings about her unconventional family and her increasingly strange new friend.
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After losing her job as a corrupt medium's assistant, Kate finds that spiritualism and séances have an even stronger hold on her than she expected. Mysterious disappearances have been occurring, and she enlists the frail psychic Elsie and skeptical Asher to find out the truth. This otherwise engrossing Victorian-era mystery has inconsistent characterization and a dissatisfying and abrupt ending.
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In 1896, seventeen-year-old Willie Hammond steals her classmate's identity and becomes a teacher at the Cherokee National Female Seminary. She's housed in the room of a student who died under mysterious circumstances and who appears to be returning as a ghost. The mystery is nicely played out, and the romance element is deliciously restrained. An author's note reveals more about the seminary.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
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November, 2011
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