For the month of October, I'll be featuring as many ghost stories as I could get my hands on. Not all of them are scary. Some are intriguing. Some are new, some are shelf-finds from my local library, and a few I waited a year to post the review this month! I hope you enjoy them all.
This is a gentle middle grade ghost story for readers who like their ghosts familial and not-so-scary.
It's right before Halloween in St. Augustine, Fl. and it's Lucely's father's best time for his ghost-tour business around the city's cemeteries and fort. Unfortunately, they're behind on the house payments, and unless everything goes perfectly, packing in the tourists for a scary ride, they'll be forced to move.
Lucely can see ghosts, or at least, her family's spirits. They live in the tree out back as fireflies, and join the family for breakfast, downing pancakes as fast as Lucely's father can make them.
But when her Mamá Teresa visits during one of her father's tours to warn her "A darkness is approaching," Lucely forgets her lines and her father's tour is ruined. He has to refund the tickets and they're that much closer to losing the house.
Then the firefly spirits start to fade. Lucely seeks help from her best friend Syd and his witch grandmother, Babette, to stop a plot that could threaten the entire city.
I grew up in Florida, visited the fort and city many, many times, and can totally imagine a ghost-tour around the town, and I love reading books set in my native state.
A fun, quick read, with friendly, family ghosts.
