Ninth Key (2001) (edit title/settings)

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• Susannah "Suze" Simon: A Mediator-someone who can communicate with ghosts and guides them to their afterlife
• Jesse de Silva: The handsome, Hispanic ghost who protectively occupies Suze's house and regularly gives her advice.
• Father Dominic: The priest who is prinicipal at Suze's school: Junipero Mission Academy
• Andy Ackerman: Suze's new stepdad
• Helen Ackerman: Suze's mum and a news broadcaster
• Jake (Sleepy) Ackerman: Suze's oldest step-brother who is always tired hence the name sleepy.
• Brad (Dopey) Ackerman: Suze's middle stepbrother who is the most irritating of them all and not the brightest in the bunch hence the name 'Dopey'.
• David (Doc) Ackerman: Suze's youngest stepbrother who is Suze's favorite and very smart for his age or better yey any one's age hence the name 'Doc'.

Quotes edit see section history

• “Now that, was your finest performance yet. You seemed caring yet disgusted.”

  Jesse de Silva

• “Okay. This has gotten a little too Stephen King for me. I gotta get back to class or Mr. Walden's going to think I'm AWOL. But if I get a note from you later saying I'm gonna have to stake this guy in the heart, all bets are off. Tad Beaumont will totally not ask me to the prom if I killed his dad.”

  Susannah "Suze" Simon

• “If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me?”

  Jesse de Silva

• “A society that valued its members solely for their outward appearance was a society destined for destruction.”

  "Doc" via Susannah "Suze" Simon

• “I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah," Jesse said, "but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night,they keep their tongues to themselves.”

• “This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.”

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• But Tad’s father was clearly a couple of fries short of a Happy Meal.

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• “If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn’t you come to me?”

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• I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America’s Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business.

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• While statistics concerning domestic violence are always difficult to obtain due to low reportage, incidents in which females batter male family members are reported even less, as the victims are almost always too embarrassed to tell members of law enforcement that they have, in fact, been beaten by a woman.”

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• “Golly gee, mister,” I said. “I forgot all about your superpowers.”

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• “Honey, you talk faster than anyone I ever heard in my life. Would you care to repeat all that? Slowly, this time?”

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• “He just doesn’t know you,” Jesse said. “I will introduce you.” He picked up the cat and pointed him in my direction. “Cat,” he said. “This is Susannah. Susannah, meet the cat.”

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• “I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,” Jesse said, “but that doesn’t mean I don’t know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.”

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• The Ninth Key, the explanation went. Ninth card in the Tarot, the Hermit guides the souls of the dead past the temptation of illusory fires by the roadside, so that they may go straight to their higher goal.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Shadowland (The Mediator, Book 1), and followed by Reunion.

Preceded by Shadowland (The Mediator, Book 1), and followed by Reunion.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Meg Cabot (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Contains profanity and violence.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives
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