Not Quite a Ghost -- Anne Ursu, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us--and the ones we carry inside.

The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart--whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street--very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay.

That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom in their new house is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill--and does not get better. As days turn into weeks without any improvement, her family growing more confused and her friends wondering if she's really sick at all, she finds herself spending more time alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper, the shadows moving in the corners, wrapping themselves around her at night.

And soon, Violet starts to suspect that she might not be alone in the room at all.

Author: Anne Ursu
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Published: 01/16/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780062275158
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/16/2023
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2023
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2023
Booklist 12/01/2023 pg. 126
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2024 pg. 102