{"id":27,"date":"2013-02-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2013-03-22T17:06:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:06:58","slug":"spookygirl-paranormal-investigator-by-jill-baguchinsky-fiction-vengeful-ghosts-in-the-locker-room-mystery-mansion-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Spookygirl: Paranormal Investigator, by Jill Baguchinsky (fiction) – vengeful ghosts in the locker room, mystery mansion calling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookAble to see ghosts? All the time.
\nTalk to spirits? Piece of cake.
\nSee her own mom’s ghost<\/a>? Not a chance…<\/p>\n

Violet’s aunt thinks her gift is unclean, her dad wonders if she’s talked to the ghost of her mom (but doesn’t dare ask), and the ghosts in the area just want to chat.<\/p>\n

This debut novel won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for Young Adult Fiction in 2011, and Dutton Books’ editorial staff brought it out in hardback in 2012. Check it out at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> now, and see what the ghosts in Violet’s town are gossiping about!<\/p>\n

Whose ghost would you like to have a conversation with?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Spookygirl: Paranormal Investigator \/ Jill Baguchinsky. Dutton Books, 2012. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0<\/p>\n

My Recommendation<\/b>: Vengeful spirits in the girls\u2019 locker room, boring school uniforms, and strange rumors running ahead of her\u2026 Violet would much rather stay in the apartment above Dad\u2019s funeral home with Buster the ghost, but unfortunately high school is still mandatory.<\/p>\n

Ghosts always talk to her, just like they talked to her mom. It\u2019s been ten years since Mom died during a paranormal investigation with her dad, but Violet has never seen her ghost. Some online sleuthing leads Violet to another researcher from her parents\u2019 past expeditions, but the now-semi-respectable psychic tries to convince her to stay away from Mom\u2019s last place on earth.<\/p>\n

A dead football player is hanging around Palmetto High\u2019s art room, there\u2019s a possible hell-portal in the girls\u2019 shower, and one of the goth kids claims he\u2019s half-vampire. Senior citizen ghosts (Florida is full of them) help Violet stage a memorable Halloween s\u00e9ance in the cemetery to \u201cscare straight\u201d some kids who want to dabble in the dark arts, but even they warn her to stay far away from the creepy deserted estate where her mother died.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to Violet to use her psychic gifts to clear up all this, so her new not-so-goth friends help her get ready to visit the estate, and maybe hear from Mom one last time (surely she wouldn\u2019t head to the Beyond without saying goodbye?), but things go bad in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n

What can they do to placate the angry attacking poltergeist?
\nCan Violet ever reconnect with her mother\u2019s ghost?
\nAre the friends going to make it out of there alive?<\/p>\n

Spookygirl, scary fun, terrifying investigations!\u00a0 (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Able to see ghosts? All the time. Talk to spirits? Piece of cake. See her own mom’s ghost? Not a chance… Violet’s aunt thinks her gift is unclean, her dad wonders if she’s talked to the ghost of her mom (but doesn’t dare ask), and the ghosts in the area just want to chat. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,30,51,41],"tags":[4,37,44,39,49,81,15,9,21,35,33,60,3,8,72],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-belonging","tag-death","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-psychic","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-tbr2012","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-visions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}