by Wendy Parris (Author)
A new pulse-pounding supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old Rebecca, who has always wanted to hunt ghosts . . . until she meets one.
"Chilling, thrilling, and full of heart!"--Kiersten White, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sinister Summer series
Paranormal enthusiast Rebecca Graff isn't happy about being dragged to Iowa to spend the summer with family she barely knows. But when she tracks a ghostly presence to an abandoned farmhouse, she starts to think the summer won't be a total lost cause!
The trouble is no one believes her. Then Rebecca finds a note stashed in a comic belonging to her late father--a note that proves the same spirit haunted him when he was twelve. Suddenly she feels a connection to the dad she pretends not to miss, and she is determined to uncover the story behind the haunting.
But the more Rebecca discovers, the scarier the ghost becomes. Soon she is in a race to piece together the puzzle and recover a family legacy before it is lost forever and a horrible tragedy repeats itself.
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Armed with her copy of Heart-Stopping Heartland Hauntings, paranormal-obsessed 12-year-old Rebecca Graff travels with her mother from Chicago to Iowa to stay with Rebecca's uncle Jon and his family in the same place her late--and rarely discussed--father spent his summers. Though she's not thrilled to be away from her best friend, Rebecca hopes that she'll finally encounter a ghost while exploring her eerie rural surroundings, especially when she learns that her dad was also fascinated by all things supernatural. Following an unsettling experience in an abandoned nearby farmhouse, Rebecca becomes convinced that there is a ghostly presence trying to communicate with her and determines to uncover the spirit's secrets despite jeers from mean girl Kelsie, whose family owns the dilapidated property. The discovery of a creepy photograph and diary from the early 1900s, as well as her dad's notes on his own spectral encounters, sets the tween on an expedition to unravel the mystery with the assistance of cute local boy Nick. Though some story elements feel overly convenient, Rebecca's desire for connection to the father she barely knew--particularly in her emotionally withdrawn mother's absence--lends a note of poignancy to the steadily paced scares in Parris's atmospheric debut. Characters default to white. Ages 8-12. Agent: Karyn Fischer, BookStop Literary. (Aug.)
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