A Properly Unhaunted Place
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes “a fun and fast-paced supernatural mystery with secret depths” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Rosa Ramona Díaz has a very special talent. She comes from a family of librarians who specialize in ghost appeasement. So she can’t understand why her mother has moved them to Ingot, the world’s only unhaunted town. What are they supposed to do there, with no poltergeists to quiet and no specters to soothe? Frankly, Rosa doesn’t think anyone should want to live in a place where the biggest attraction is a woefully inaccurate Renaissance Festival.
But Jasper Chevalier has always lived in Ingot, working at the festival while his parents hold court. Jasper has never seen a ghost, and can’t imagine his unhaunted town any other way…until an angry apparition thunders into the fairgrounds and turns Ingot upside down. Jasper is astonished…and Rosa is delighted.
Mist is building in the hills, and something otherworldly is about to be unleashed. Rosa will need all her ghost appeasement tools—and a little help from Jasper—to try to rein in the angry ghosts in this hilariously spooky adventure.
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Rosa D az is not happy about moving to the town of Ingot, "the only unhaunted place Rosa had ever heard of." As the daughter of a renowned "appeasement specialist," trained to calm supernatural entities, Rosa knows that it's downright unnatural that Ingot's library isn't haunted. Venturing out from her windowless apartment in the library's basement, Rosa meets Jasper Chavalier, the 11-year-old son of two actors at the local Renaissance fair. After a vengeful, possessed tree attacks the festival, Rosa realizes that something sinister is behind Ingot's lack of hauntings, leading her and Jasper to confront a surprising villain. National Book Award winner Alexander (Goblin Secrets) neatly inverts the typical ghost story, creating a supernatural landscape in which hauntings are part of the fabric of life and go hand in hand with respecting and honoring the departed. The friends' realization that they must rely on themselves, not their parents, is relatable and poignant: Rosa's efforts to accept her mother's shortcomings and Jasper's struggle to find his inner hero add depth to this charming mystery. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 8 12. Author's)
