The River Whispers, by Pamela Pizzimenti

This is an amazing book. Our take:

When Evie moves to a small town called Turnsville she feels insubstantial. She knows no one and no one, save her mother, knows her. It all goes downhill on the first day of school when a boy, a cute boy no less, has to drag her to the nurse's office thinking she is insane. I mean who knew that she could see ghosts and that someone would sit down through one? This book is filled with drama, mystery, romance, and a quest for a white car.
--Mags

Can Evie see ghosts or is she going crazy? When a boy has to drag her to the nurse's office on the first day of school in a new town Evie is more than embarrassed. In a small town, everything seems interconnected, even the death of the ghost. Does she really want to unravel this mystery? A powerful look at death and life.
--Marie

Don't Judge a Girl By Her Cover, Ally Carter

Cammie "The Chameleon" Morgan is a spy and student at the best school for spies in the world, Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. When Cammie joins her roommate in D.C. she thwarts a kidnapping of the potential vice-president's daughter, a Gallagher Girl herself, and realizes that everything is not as it seems. The ring on the finger of the kidnapper was not a mistake, her Aunt Abby is in fact alive and well, and that white haired man seems all too familiar......


This is an amazing book with many twists and turns.

Ally Carter's website.

Five Books That I Read on Vacation

1.Dancing on the Edge
by Han Nolan
Miracle McCloy is not a normal girl, nor does she live a normal life. But when her father dissolves and she is sent to live with her psychic grandmother, she becomes even less normal then ever. A haunting and deep story. It helped me ignore turbulence on an airplane.



2.A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ged has learned all the magic there is to know in his village--barely enough to stop the invaders. But Ged hungers for a greater power. This is the story of how Ged overcomes the results of a deadly experiment. I read this on a bus ride with frequent stops so I could ponder the twisty plot.



3.Owl in Love
by Patrice Kindl
Owl. That is who she is. An owl at night and a student at day. She is in love with her middle aged science teacher. Is this love or is something more waiting around the bend? Another airplane read.



4.Beyond the Burning Time
by Kathryn Lasky
29 dead. The Salem witch trials are a deadly affair. Is Mary's mother really a witch? Mary and her brother will have to decide. A dark and vivid account of the Salem Witch trials. Do not read this before bed.



5.Gathering Blue, (Companion to The Giver)
by Lois Lowry
Kira's Mother is dead. It was a disease--or was it murder? Kira lives a new life as an artist.Did they save her or trap her? A beautifully done companion.