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Review: Ghost Book

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Ghost Book
By Remy Lai
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2023. Comic. 313 pages.

It's Hungry Ghost Month, which means that the Gates of the Underworld are open and ghosts are traveling through the mortal realm in search of food. Which also means that July Chen has to spend the next month pretending that she can't see all of the ghosts floating around, just like she has every other Hungry Ghost Month of her entire life. But when she saves William, a boy ghost, from being eaten by one of the Hungry Ghosts, he won't let her pretend that she can't see them. And as it turns out, William is not a ghost at all, he's somewhere in between life and death, as his body resides in a local hospital. For the first time in her life, July finally has a friend (you see, July has always been very forgettable, sometimes even her dad forgets that she exists.) Will they be able to find a way to reunite William with his body? Will they be able to figure out why July can see ghosts when no one else can? You'll just have to read to find out.

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Ms. Yingling said…
There aren't as many horror type graphic novels, so this will make a lot of readers happy. I display this along with the P.J. Night and Mary Downing Hahn graphic novel titles. Happy holidays, and thanks for your great book reviews!
December 24, 2023 at 5:34 AM
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