The Last Resort
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Publisher Description
The next evolution in storytelling from New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal Winning author Erin Entrada Kelly!
Twelve-year-old Lila has two goals for the summer:
1. Win back the friends who ditched her for being "too dramatic"
2. Stop being so dramatic
But then Lila's estranged Grandpa Clem dies, throwing a wrench in her plans. Now she'll have to spend the summer in Ohio while her parents decide what to do with Grandpa Clem's creepy Victorian Inn. It's supremely unfair. How can she show off the "new and improved" Lila from so far away?
Even worse, strange things keep happening. En route to Ohio, the family gets into a scary car accident. No one's hurt, but the remainder of the trip is... odd. At every rest stop, Lila sees people in weird old-fashioned clothes. People no one else can see or hear...
Lila convinces herself it's just her overactive imagination until the day of the funeral when she spots an old man sitting in her grandfather's favorite chair. She does a double take -- it's him, Grandpa Clem. He tells Lila that he didn't die of a heart attack: he was murdered. Possibly by someone who wants to control the inn. Because it's not a normal bed & breakfast: it's a portal between the land of the living and the realm of the dead. A hotel for ghosts passing onto the afterlife.
With the help of her skeptical brother, Caleb, and their new ghost-obsessed neighbor, Teddy, Lila -- the girl who's vowed to be less dramatic -- must uncover her grandfather's killer AND stop the evil spirits desperate to make their way back into the human world.
Enter the world of The Last Resort! Ghosts from the story will emerge from the pages of the book, allowing readers to talk to spirits from the past and help solve the mystery!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Eleven-year-old Lila Clement doesn't want to travel to the Ohio inn owned by the recently deceased grandfather she never knew. She'd much prefer to spend her summer proving to her friends that she's not a drama queen like they claim. But following a near-death experience after her parents' car spins out on the wet highway, she starts having strange visions, which test her resolve to be "strong and steady" like a rock. The weirdness escalates when she encounters ghosts at the Castle Hill Inn—including the spirit of Grandpa Clem himself, who says he was murdered. Allying with ghost-enthusiast newcomer Teddy and her video game–loving younger brother, Caleb, Lila investigates the inn's sordid history, the stakes escalating as her parents and neighbors are besieged by nightmares about their worst fears. Now Lila's burgeoning medium skills may be necessary to provide Grandpa Clem peace and save the town. Kelly (At Last She Stood) deploys intensely scary scenes and chilling prose to manifest an eerie series-starting adventure. Grim ghost portraiture by Franquiz (the Archives of the Unexplained series) enhances the unnerving ambiance. Includes interactive digital aspects. Teddy has brown skin; the Clements are described as having Filipino ancestry. Ages 8–12. Author's agent: Sara Crow, Sara Crowe Literary. Illustrator's agent: Desiree Wilson, Looking Glass Literary.