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Suddenly Supernatural: School Spirit Review
Never knowing who will show up at your house or when can be a difficult way to go through life. Just ask thirteen-year-old Kat. At a very young age she became accustomed to the fact that visitors liked to come and go at very strange hours of the day and night. But these weren’t your typical visitors. No, these visitors didn’t include pesky relatives, obnoxious neighbors, or even surprise deliveries. These visitors all had one very important thing in common: they weren’t part of the living population.
While Kat would love nothing more than to become on of the Satellite Girls, who spend their waking hours flipping their perfectly coiffed hair, and rotating around the glamorous Shoshanna Longbarrow, popularity most certainly seems out of the question. As the daughter of a hippie who doubles as a medium, Kat has never led the type of life that you see on teen sitcoms. Sure, she doesn’t have to deal with never seeing her mother, or being shuffled from house to house week-by-week due to a divorce, but she does have to deal with the strange things that take place at her house every time someone new decides to come in for a landing. But now, ever since Kat turned thirteen-years-old, things have gone a bit more wacky. For now, after all these years of hearing her mother’s stories, Kat has some stories of her own to tell. That’s right, when Kat turned thirteen-years-old, she inherited her mother’s medium capabilities, and now she can see and speak to dead people as well. Now, with her new best friend, and cello prodigy, Jac, by her side, Kat has been contacted by the spirit of a flute-playing teenager named Suzanne who died back in 1960. Kat knows that Suzanne needs her help in order to rest in peace, but it’ll take the brains of both Kat and Jac to learn Suzanne’s secrets and help her to cross over peacefully, all while attempting to survive the trials and tribulations of middle school.
I always love fiction about the supernatural, so I knew that I had to read Elizabeth Cody Kimmel’s SUDDENLY SUPERNATURAL: SCHOOL SPIRIT when I first spotted it. Kimmel has created gold. Kat is such a relatable, down-to-earth character whose fear and excitement about being a medium is easily shared by the reader as they get to learn more about her. Jac, on the other hand, is a pop culture loving geek who you can’t help but love. Her dramatic antics and self-assured ways make her the perfect contrast to Kat’s more meek personality. And the way that Kimmel has introduced Jac’s cello as a character all its own known as the “ball and chain” adds a strange sense of humor to the tale that is quite compelling. Kimmel paints Kat as a teen ghost whisperer who you can’t get enough of; and the fact that a sequel is on the way is simply the icing on the cake. A bumpy thrill ride you’ll find difficult to put down!
Erika Sorocco
Suddenly Supernatural: School Spirit Overview
In the tradition of the loveable but flawed heroines from Louise Rennison’s Georgia Nicholson Books, Kathleen O’Dell’s Agnes Parker novels, and Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik books comes Elizabeth Cody Kimmel’s Kat Roberts. All Kat wants is to be normal, or at least to look that way to students at her new school. But her mother is a medium, and not the kind that fits in between small and large; Kat’s mom is the kind of medium who sees spirits and communicates with them. And, even worse, Kat has just discovered that she can see spirits too. In fact, she seems to be the only one capable of helping a spirit at her school cross over successfully. The question is can she do it without needing to switch schools herself?
In this the first of three SUDDENLY SUPERNATURAL books, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel brings humor, heart, and a little supernatural charm to the trials and tribulations of finding out who you are and who you want to be–all while surviving the seventh grade.
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