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This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you. --
R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Do you know what it feels like to
be forgotten? On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend,
Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly
fallen snow. There, Iris carefully makes a perfect snow angel--only
to find the crumbling gravestone of a young girl, Avery Moore,
right beneath her. Immediately, strange things start to happen to
Iris: She begins having vivid nightmares. She wakes up to find her
bedroom window wide open, letting in the snow. She thinks she sees
the shadow of a girl lurking in the woods. And she feels the pull
of the abandoned grave, calling her back to the clearing...
Obsessed with figuring out what's going on, Iris and Daniel start
to research the area for a school project. They discover that
Avery's grave is actually part of a neglected and forgotten Black
cemetery, dating back to a time when White and Black people were
kept separate in life--and in death. As Iris and Daniel learn more
about their town's past, they become determined to restore Avery's
grave and finally have proper respect paid to Avery and the others
buried there. But they have awakened a jealous and demanding ghost,
one that's not satisfied with their plans for getting recognition.
One that is searching for a best friend forever--no matter what the
cost. The Forgotten Girl is both a spooky original ghost story and
a timely and important storyline about reclaiming an abandoned
segregated cemetery. A harrowing yet empowering tale reminding us
that the past is connected to the present, that every place and
every person has a story, and that those stories deserve to be
told. -- Renee Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Piecing
Me Together
"This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you." --
R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps
"Do you know what it feels like to be forgotten?"
On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Daniel, sneak into a
clearing in the woods to play in the freshly fallen snow. There, Iris
carefully makes a perfect snow angel -- only to find the crumbling
gravestone of a young girl, Avery Moore, right beneath her.
Immediately, strange things start to happen to Iris: She begins having
vivid nightmares. She wakes up to find her bedroom window wide open,
letting in the snow. She thinks she sees the shadow of a girl lurking
in the woods. And she feels the pull of the abandoned grave, calling
her back to the clearing...
Obsessed with figuring out what's going on, Iris and Daniel start to
research the area for a school project. They discover that Avery's
grave is actually part of a neglected and forgotten Black cemetery,
dating back to a time when White and Black people were kept separate in
life -- and in death. As Iris and Daniel learn more about their town's
past, they become determined to restore Avery's grave and finally have
proper respect paid to Avery and the others buried there.
But they have awakened a jealous and demanding ghost, one that's not
satisfied with their plans for getting recognition. One that is
searching for a best friend forever -- no matter what the cost.
The Forgotten Girl is both a spooky original ghost story and a timely
and important storyline about reclaiming an abandoned segregated
cemetery.
"A harrowing yet empowering tale reminding us that the past is
connected to the present, that every place and every person has a
story, and that those stories deserve to be told." -- Renée Watson, New
York Times bestselling author of Piecing Me Together
For fans of Small Spaces, Doll Bones, and Mary Downing Hahn, a
truly chilling (and historically inspired) ghost story from the
award-winning author of The Forgotten Girl. Celeste knows she
should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake
house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy,
but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the
lake... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test
and hates being in the water--it's terrifying. But her grandparents
are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim,
especially having grown up during a time of segregation at public
pools. And soon strange things start happening--the sound of
footsteps overhead late at night. A flickering light in the attic
window. And Celete's cousins start accusing her of pranking them
when she's been no where near them! Things at the old house only
get spookier until one evening when Celeste looks in the steamy
mirror after a shower and sees her face, but twisted, different...
Who is the girl in the mirror? And what does she want? Past and
present mingle in this spine-tingling ghost story by award-winning
author India Hill Brown.
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