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Not Quite a Ghost
Not Quite a Ghost | Anne Ursu
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From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround usand the ones we carry inside. The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didnt fit among them. For Violet Hartwhose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Streetvery little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violets group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isnt enough for Violets best friend, Paige. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay. That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom in their new house is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls illand does not get better. As days turn into weeks without any improvement, her family growing more confused and her friends wondering if shes really sick at all, she finds herself spending more time alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper, the shadows moving in the corners, wrapping themselves around her at night. And soon, Violet starts to suspect that she might not be alone in the room at all.
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GirlNamedJesse
Not Quite a Ghost | Anne Ursu
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I adore this book! Sure I had to stop reading because I saw something moving in the hallway, and sure my fear of “someone in the mirror” was reawakened, and sure the description of “not quite a ghost” turned my stomach, but it‘s inspired by The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (love it!) and the doctors are enRAGing, and Violet learns to stand up for herself. 👻

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JoyBlue
Not Quite a Ghost | Anne Ursu
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The whole book was unpleasant. Throughout, there is the middle-grade version of Mean Girls. Then, in the last roughly twenty percent, there is the ghost story/horror aspect. I didn't find any compelling redeeming features.