The characters: You really want to be in this circle of friends, they are very likeable.Ģ. I am going to list what I loved about this book.ġ. It really took some unexpected twists that kept me very intrigued to see what happened next. This was the most unique ghost story I have ever read. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn't going to go quietly. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Her act of heroism draws the mist's attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. The insults, pranks and sparks fly as the two find a way to get a passing grade without kissing. He plans to use the time with Chelsea to give her a little of the payback she deserves.

He has hated her since elementary school, for Chelsea’s treatment of Alicia. She’s getting good grades, so that would be fine, except she’s been paired with Cody, Alicia’s twin brother, to work together on the most important project of her senior year.Ĭody isn’t happy to be forced to interact with Chelsea either. With a cheer scholarship off the table, her only chance to afford her dream college is through academics. Chelsea doesn’t think it’s funny, but her annoying coping mechanism pops up and the whole school thinks she dropped Alicia on purpose.Ĭhelsea is kicked off the cheer team for her unsportsmanlike conduct and shunned by her classmates. But laughing like a maniac while Alicia writhes in pain from the leg she just broke, that’s a disaster. So when she drops Alicia, her archenemy who just stole her boyfriend, during their cheer routine at a school assembly, it’s bad. No, it’s an insane cackle, like the evil villain in a B movie horror flick, and she can’t control it. When Chelsea gets nervous, embarrassed, or upset, she usually laughs it off, literally.

That's The Spirit by Lani Woodland