As simple as it seems

Description:

Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before. Eleven-year-old Verbena gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with the help of an odd new friend who mistakes Verbena for the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

subjects: Puberty,  Ghosts,  Juvenile fiction,  Friendship,  Family life,  Identity,  Fiction,  Children's fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Ghosts, fiction,  Identity, fiction,  Adoption, fiction,  Catskill mountains region (n.y.), fiction

Places: New York (State),  Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)