The Baby-Sitters Club meets Stranger Things in this eerie middle grade novel about friendship, fitting in, and the afterlife, following a girl who discovers sheâs not the only one at her new school who can see ghosts.
Wednesday Thomas sees ghosts. But that doesnât mean she has to talk to them.
After a terrifying experience in an Arizona state park with a wicked ghost, Wednesday and her mother Olivia sell their RV and move back south to the family home in Alton, Georgia. Wednesdayâs determined not to use her gift anymoreâuntil she meets a group of girls who also know about the spirit realm.
Thereâs free-spirited Miki Okada and Southern belle Danni-Lynn Porter who seem to know about the ghosts who roam the schoolâs hallways, popular girl Alexa Scott who tells Wednesday to stay away from Miki and Danni-Lynn and not draw attention to herself, and mysterious neighbor Violet Delgado who died last year but still haunts the house across the street. Wednesday feels these girls have some kind of shared history, but it isnât until Miki gives her an official invitation to the Dead Club that she starts to understand thereâs a lot more going on with the ghosts in Alton and the girls who can see them.
And when another malevolent ghost threatens to harm Wednesday, it will take the help of new friends both living and dead to save her and banish the evil being to the spirit realm where it belongs.