  | Taxi ghost Author: Escabasse, Sophie | |
| Price: $20.28 | ||
Summary:
Adele just wants to spend her winter break at the library, but she learns she comes from a long line of mediums and that not only can she interact with ghosts, but apparently they have been using her sister's car to get around the city for years.
| Illustrator: | Byrd, Kiwi |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (07/15/24)
School Library Journal (00/08/24)
Booklist (07/01/24)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/09/24)
The Hornbook (00/09/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 07/01/2024 After Adéle sees her first ghost, she’s let in on a family secret: women in her family are often mediums. Her grandmother despises the “gift” and does everything she can to keep ghosts out of her life, but Adéle is curious, especially when one ghost, Jules, keeps trying to get her help to stop an avaricious real estate developer. The issue hits close to home—her gran is active in a neighborhood group trying to stop the construction of luxury condos—and soon Adéle is helping Jules with his plan, much to the chagrin of Gran. Escabasse’s detailed, deeply expressive artwork steals the show, with terrifically dynamic and varied character designs and an evocative sense of place in the snowy, modest Montreal neighborhood. World building is wryly integrated into the plot, and a teensy connection to Escabesse’s Witches of Brooklyn neatly establishes the otherwise-unrelated stories in the same universe. While the resolution is a bit too tidy, tweens who like ghost stories grounded in real-life concerns will likely get a kick out of it. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
