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Ghostgirl: Book 1

Ghostgirl (2008) (edit title/settings)

by Tonya Hurley (Author) (edit contributors)

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Invisibility seems fun, not when you are actually there though. But what happens when death by gummy bear is engraved on your gravestone and then you realize your dead. Things were going Charlotte's way, for a start dreamboat Damen had asked her to tutor him and they were now physics... read more

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After spending an entire summer planning how to become popular and get Damen, her crush, to notice her, the unpopular Charlotte Usher's life seems to be looking up when Damen is made her Physics lab partner and asks for tutoring. However, her plans come to an unexpected end when she chokes to... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

After spending an entire summer planning how to become popular and get Damen, her crush, to notice her, the unpopular Charlotte Usher's life seems to be looking up when Damen is made her Physics lab partner and asks for tutoring. However, her plans come to an unexpected end when she chokes to death on a gummy bear. Charlotte becomes a ghost, invisible to everyone she once knew, and forced to go to "Dead Ed" – a school for dead teenagers – to learn to use her supernatural abilities.

After some initial shock, Charlotte resolves to continue with her plan, using her new abilities to rejoin the living world, even though her Dead Ed classmates disapprove. While spying on Damen with his girlfriend Petula – the cheerleader Charlotte idolises – Charlotte discovers that Scarlet, Petula's goth sister, can see her. However, she is forced to leave to attend a meeting at the Dead Dorm, Hawthorne Manor, where the Dead Ed class are trying to prevent the manor from being sold. At Charlotte's suggestion, they disguise the building as unsafe to scare off buyers.

Inspired by her Dead Ed handbook, Charlotte attempts to possess Petula, but discovers possession is impossible without permission. Instead, Charlotte convinces Scarlet to allow herself to be possessed, gaining some time tutoring Damen in Physics while Scarlet enjoys making mischief as a ghost. However, Scarlet cuts the encounter short when Charlotte impulsively tries out for the cheer leading squad in her body. Charlotte possesses Scarlet again in order to attend a cheerleader slumber party, in return for allowing Scarlet to visit the Dead Dorm. While Charlotte decides that she is destined to share the "magical" Midnight Kiss with Damen at the upcoming Fall Ball, Scarlet is discovered by Prue and her interruption during a viewing accidentally causes Hawthorne Manor to be condemned.

Scarlet returns to the slumber party just as Charlotte is about to kiss Damen in a game of spin the bottle. As Prue uses her powers to scare away the other guests, Scarlet resolves not to be possessed again, but she is forced by Charlotte's promise to continue tutoring Damen. The pair begin to bond over similar tastes in music, and Scarlet's association with Damen makes her style popular. When Damen begins failing Physics, Scarlet, who has begun to like him, asks Charlotte for her help with the tutoring. However, the pair soon become jealous of each other, and decide to ask Damen to choose between them, only to be interrupted by Prue and the Dead Ed class.

As Charlotte is lectured to leave her old life behind her, she decides that if the Fall Ball,now cancelled after Prue's attack on the school, were held at Hawthorne Manor, the building would not have to be demolished – secretly planning to possess Scarlet on the night, as she is attending with Damen. The Dead Ed class agree and help decorate in a Halloween style, and Scarlet convinces the dance committee to change locations, reluctantly promising Charlotte the Midnight Kiss in return. However, Prue and the other Dead Ed kids crash the party, and Charlotte gives up her Midnight Kiss in order to stop them. When Scarlet and Damen are crowned king and queen of the dance, Charlotte surrenders the moment in the spotlight and achieves resolution. Charlotte and the Dead Ed class become visible to everyone, their wounds healed, and they join the dance before finally moving on.

Characters/People edit see section history

  • Charlotte Usher: (also called ghostgirl) – the main protagonist of the novel, a senior in High school. She has a crush on Damen, and a plan to be with him, but chokes to death on a gummy bear before carrying it out. She then becomes a ghost, and only Scarlet can see her.
  • Damen Dylan: Charlotte's crush and Petula's boyfriend. Damen is known as a football player, but is secretly more interested in music than in sport.
  • Petula Kensington: Damen's girlfriend. A vain, cruel cheerleader idolized by Charlotte. Sister of Scarlet.
  • Scarlet Kensington: Petula's sister. A goth, and the only one who can see Charlotte once she is a ghost.
  • Piccolo Pam: One of Charlotte's friends when she died.
  • Charlotte: Charlotte is a funny, silly girl that still puts some emotion into her life. Read the book. I highly recommend it for anyone who like horror, hilarity, or mystery.
  • Metal Mike: Add a description of this character.
  • Prue: The leader of the dead teenagers. She wants to move on, and thinks Charlotte is shallow and selfish for not helping her classmates. She also belittles Charlotte's obsession with popularity, as she was murdered by a popular boy on the way to a school dance.
  • Wendy Anderson: One of Petula's girl friends.
  • Mike
  • Wendy Thomas
  • Mr. Brain
  • Paula
  • Deadhead Jerry
  • Susan Jane
  • Kim
  • Mr. Martin
  • Max
  • Butch
  • Billy
  • Mr. Widget
  • Sam
  • Abigail
  • Wacksel
  • Deadiquette: Its like the etiquette for dead people.
  • Martins
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “What’s the problem with wanting to hold on to something you love? Something that you lived for?”
    Metal Mike
  • “Get me away from here I’m dying, Play me a song to set me free, Nobody writes them like they used to, So it may as well be me”
    Belle and Sebastian
  • “I don’t give a crap about crossing over and getting any kind of resolution if it means giving up my music.”
    Metal Mike
  • “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
    Woody Allen
  • “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”
    Oscar Wilde
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  • Non sum qualis eram. (I am not what I once was.)
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  • “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened,”
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  • friends are like stars. you don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.
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  • The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. —Oscar Wilde
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  • Being “in love” is a statement of your own needs and desires rather than an attempt to fulfi ll another’s. True love, on the other hand, is a bridge between two people.
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  • Last night I dreamt, That somebody loved me No hope no harm Just another false alarm. —The Smiths
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  • How can you see into my eyes like open doors Leading you down into my core Where I’ve become so numb without a soul My spirit sleeping somewhere cold Until you find it there and lead it back home. —Evanescence
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  • I was one to the world, But my dream was to be the world to one. —gg
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  • We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It’s not about what you had, but what you gave. It’s not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it’s not just about being remembered. It’s about giving people a good reason to remember you.
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  • All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. —Edgar Allan Poe
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First Sentence edit see section history

You never think it will happen to you.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Acknowledgment
1. Ever Feel Invisible?
2. Dying To Be Popular
3. A Wake
4. Why Me?
5. Death for Dummies
6. Death and Dating
7.He Doesn't Even Know I'm Alive
8. Heart of Darkness
9. Behind the Wheel
10. Last Writes
11. So Alive
12. Busy Bodies
13. The Fall of the House of Usher
14. Kiss Off
15. Do or Die
16. Princess and the Poseurs
17. While You Were Out
18. Play Me
19. Dirty Little Secret
20. To Wish Impossible Things
21. Dead Can Dance
22. Bleeding Heart
23. The Ghost of You
24. Rest in Popularity
Epilogue: There Is a Light
About the Author

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 3 in Ghostgirl. (standard series)

Followed by Homecoming.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Tonya Hurley (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Country: America
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
ISBN: 0316113573
Page Count: 334

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

This book is probably best for 12 and up unless you have a mature child. This book, although very good, has kind of a twisted sense of humor that some people may find gross or disturbing.

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