Picked up this one on a recent "library run" and we enjoyed it. This story features a gentle set of ghosts, an equally gentle young boy, and a very mean councilman and "ghosterminator."
It's not a ghost story in the sense that it isn't scary or suspenseful, but the MC -- Dahlia, a 12-year-old ghost -- has to unravel the mystery of how she died while learning the "rules for ghosting." Her schooling's been overlooked for a few centuries by the Spectral Council, which sends an older ghost to tutor her.
Dahlia has a lot to learn when a little boy, Oliver, who can see her, shows up with his family to house sit. Unfortunately, the house is on a town councilman's radar and he hires a "ghosterminator" to get rid of Dahlia.
Can Dahlia and Oliver thwart the ghosterminator? Will she ever learn how she dies, and be able to get beyond the barrier around the house to which she's tethered? And if she does, will she go or stay with Oliver?
