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Loading... Lily Dale: Awakeningby Wendy Corsi Staub
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Calla just lost her mother to a tragic accident and while her father is on sabbatical at a university in California, Calla visits the grandmother she never really knew. When she arrives, she discovers that her grandmother is a medium and lives in the spiritualist society in Lily Dale, New York. Suddenly, Calla's world is turned upside down as she slowly discovers her gift as a medium and begins to wonder what really happened to her mother. The writing and character development is strong and provides some realistic insights to losing a parent. However, be prepared that just as the story begins, you are forced to wait for the second book in the series. This novel is best for grades 8-10. (  )korikay | Jul 6, 2009 |   Calla's world falls apart after the death of her mother, just when she thought her boyfriend breaking up with her with a text was the worst thing that could happen. Calla decides to stay with her Grandmother over summer vacation. Calla had never visited her mom's childhood home and is shocked to find out that her grandmother makes her living doing psychic reading and in fact her whole town is full of psychics. Calla starts to realize that she might have the gift as well and gets involved in the case of a disappearing girl and wonders if there is more to her mother's death than meets the eye. Plus there are two handsome boys in this new town that she has to try to figure out. A quick read and an interesting mystery. It does leave the reader hanging a little bit for the next book in the series. ( )ewyatt | Jun 23, 2009 | Very exillerating book, very fast paced to capture the readers interest. Calla just lost her mother, in what happers to be a tragic accident. When Calla moves in with her Grandmother, she finds herself in a whole new world. Captured in grief and despare of the sudden loss of her mother, Calla starts expirencing things that make her question sanity. Could she hold a gift that she has never known, and will she be able to use to use the gift to answer questions about her own past. (  )BookWhisperer | Mar 18, 2009 | it was okay. too much of the book felt like "i am setting up this really good story" and not enough of it was "this is the really good story." i'll still get the sequel to it to see if it improves. second one of my red dress ink authors to cross over to ya fantasy. decent first attempt. the writing took a bit to get used to. she used a weird tense. (  )simplykatie | Jul 21, 2008 | When Calla's mother dies, Calla decides to live with her gradmother for the rest of the summer. What she doesn't know is that her grandmother is a psychic who lives in a community of spiritualists, and people come from all over to communicate with the dead. When Calla begins to see ghostly apparitions, she wonders if she has the gift as well, and she wonders it will help her solve the mystery of her mother's death. (  )ShellyPYA | Apr 14, 2008 | 0.034 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0802796540, Hardcover) Calla thought that her boyfriend breaking up with her in a text message was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. But just two weeks later, her mother died in a freak accident, and life as she knew it was completely over. With her father heading to California for a new job, they decide that Calla should spend a few weeks with the grandmother she barely knows while he gets them set up. To Calla’s shock, her mother’s hometown of Lily Dale is a town full of psychics—including her grandmother. Suddenly, the fact that her mother never talked about her past takes on more mysterious overtones. The longer she stays in town, the stranger things become, as Calla starts to experience unusual and unsettling events that lead her to wonder whether she has inherited her grandmother’s unique gift. Is it this gift that is making her suspect that her mother’s death was more than an accident, or is it just an overactive imagination? Staying in Lily Dale is the only way to uncover the truth. But will Calla be able to deal with what she learns about her mother's past and her own future? (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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