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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2013 | Grades 5-up
Gr 8 Up—The sleepy, small-town community Hannah Wagnor grew up in used to feel safe, but now, during a record-breaking July heat wave, a serial killer is targeting young girls. Depressed since her friend Lillian's death six months earlier, the 16-year-old goes through the motions of daily life, with Lillian's ghost a constant presence at her side. As more bodies are discovered, Hannah begins to see more ghosts-those of the murdered girls. Investigating the deaths, she b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
From page one, the landscape of this novel is decidedly eerie. The city of Ludlow is experiencing a suffocating heat wave, there's a rash of dead birds, a young girl is found brutally murdered in a park, and there is Lillian, Hannah's best friend who died six months ago but now haunts Hannah's every move. The description of ghost Lillian, who died of anorexia, is vivid, disturbing, and even crude: "Her face is as sharp and hollowed-out as a moon crater"; "The o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
