Lily's Ghosts
by
Laura Ruby
Lily is Furious.
She can't believe she has to move again after her mom's break-up with the latest boyfriend. Now they're broke and they'll have to spend the winter in Uncle Wes's creepy summerhouse in Cape May, New Jersey.
And the place is crawling with ghosts.
From the spiteful teenager who mistakes Lily for her high school nemesis to the restless spirit of her eccentric Un
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Published
September 1st 2005
by HarperTrophy
(first published August 1st 2003)
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”I just didn’t think it would be this cold,” says Arden, Lily’s dreamily named and dreamily natured mother.
“You never think it will be this cold,” responds Lily. Or this bad or this hard or this long.
Lily and her mother have moved a dozen or so times in the past decade, shuffling along somewhere new each time one of serial monogamist Arden’s relationships don’t work out. Arden, all but lost to her family, desperately seeks to have m...more
”I just didn’t think it would be this cold,” says Arden, Lily’s dreamily named and dreamily natured mother.
“You never think it will be this cold,” responds Lily. Or this bad or this hard or this long.
Lily and her mother have moved a dozen or so times in the past decade, shuffling along somewhere new each time one of serial monogamist Arden’s relationships don’t work out. Arden, all but lost to her family, desperately seeks to have m...more
Lily’s Ghost Book Review
By Laura Ruby
HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 2003
Lily’s ghost is by Laura Ruby, it’s fiction. Lily is very confused about her family’s past, because her mom doesn’t like to talk about her family. Ever since Lily moved into her uncle’s old house, strange things have been happening to her.
Lily is a quiet dull girl who moves a lot with her mom. The house she is currently living in is her uncle’s. She spends a lot of time at home alone because she is homeschooled. One day Lily...more
By Laura Ruby
HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 2003
Lily’s ghost is by Laura Ruby, it’s fiction. Lily is very confused about her family’s past, because her mom doesn’t like to talk about her family. Ever since Lily moved into her uncle’s old house, strange things have been happening to her.
Lily is a quiet dull girl who moves a lot with her mom. The house she is currently living in is her uncle’s. She spends a lot of time at home alone because she is homeschooled. One day Lily...more
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I read the book Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby. Lily's Ghosts is a story about a girl named Lilly who moves to her Uncle Wes's house with her mother. Along the way Lily meets a knew friend named after running in to him on the sidewalk. One day when Vaz was over at Lily's house they feltbreezes noises when they were the only ones in the house, they ran outside and Vaz was shure there were ghosts. I thought this book was okay, they could have been a little more descritive in some place....more
I read the book Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby. Lily's Ghosts is a story about a girl named Lilly who moves to her Uncle Wes's house with her mother. Along the way Lily meets a knew friend named after running in to him on the sidewalk. One day when Vaz was over at Lily's house they feltbreezes noises when they were the only ones in the house, they ran outside and Vaz was shure there were ghosts. I thought this book was okay, they could have been a little more descritive in some place....more
13 year old Lily feels like she is the grown-up to her mother's constant attempt at finding happiness in all the wrong places. But when the most recent attempt backfire's Lily's mother must retreat back to her family's 100 year old house at Cape May New Jersey. Lily unlike her mom is in to practical things like science and having money. Her practical self along with several local character's allows her to unlock several long lost mysteries.
Book indicates it is for 10 and up, even though it is n...more
Book indicates it is for 10 and up, even though it is n...more
Gotta Say . . . I Loved It!
Reading this book with my daughter, she was a little more creeped out than I . . . but not much. This is good YA literature, which crosses over with both juvenile AND more sophisticated humor to appeal to adult readers as well. It’s also reflective of the human condition, where a very grown-up-for-her-age character named Lily, 13, has been abandoned by her father and faces a gypsy lifestyle with her free-spirited mother, Arden. Lily and Arden move into their newest hom...more
Reading this book with my daughter, she was a little more creeped out than I . . . but not much. This is good YA literature, which crosses over with both juvenile AND more sophisticated humor to appeal to adult readers as well. It’s also reflective of the human condition, where a very grown-up-for-her-age character named Lily, 13, has been abandoned by her father and faces a gypsy lifestyle with her free-spirited mother, Arden. Lily and Arden move into their newest hom...more
Much more along the lines of a cute ghost story than a truly scary one, Lily begins to find her ancestral home in Cape May is haunted from clues that begin subtly and progress to having her hair dyed and jam left in her shoes. She enlists the help of a cute neighbor boy (this is also partially a coming-of-age story) to help investigate the history of her house and its possible connection to ghosts, and ends up unraveling an old family mystery revealing dark secrets long buried.
Lily's angry at her mom. They had to move again after her mom's breakup, and the only place they can find to stay is Great Uncle Wes's creepy summer house in Cape May, NJ. What Lily doesn't know yet is the place is crawling with ghosts, from a spiteful teen who does horror makeovers to Uncle Max to two sunbathers who don't know they are dead. The place has it all. Now Lily must solve the secret of her family's past before she joins the ghosts haunting the house.
I loved this book in the eighth grade, and I've read it multiple times. But even just a couple years later, I don't think I'd read it again. As great as it was, it does have his flaws. Regardless, I'd recommend it to anyone 12-14 years old. Any older and it probably won't be as interesting. That's hard to say though, since I haven't read it since I was 13. Who knows what I'd think if I read it now? (I no longer own it, so I can't really find out. Bummer.)
A very fun middle-grade book that lots of kids will definitely enjoy. The characters are very real and relatable, and the relationships between Lily and Vaz and Lily and her mother are both well done. I also enjoyed how everything came together at the end, with a few surprises along the way. If your kids are looking for a fun, not-too-scary ghost story with a little mystery thrown in, this is a great one to get for them.
I loved this book! It was hilarious and just caught my attention the WHOLE way! It was suspenseful, whic hI love, b/c it keeps me wanting to read more. I love things that keep my attention, and make me want to read more of their books. I recommend this book, b/c I think people ho love a good laugh, would probably enjoy this better than a movie.
Lily's Ghost is a werid mystery. If you like storys that make you think and make you wonder what possibly could come next, then you will like this book. honestly this book is really slow in the beggining and hard to follow in the first few chapters, but once it gets more into the middle of the book it starts getting good. This great book is about Lily a young teenage girl trying to find answers to the history of her family and why so many members have commited suicide, randomly dissapeared, or h...more
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I picked this book to read out of my classroom library and really liked it. Me and my teacher write to each other in this notebook about whatever I read. I think anyone would really like this book. WARNING: This book has some swears. . . but who cares?
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Raised in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, Laura Ruby now lives in Chicago with her family. Her short fiction for adults has appeared in various literary magazines, including Other Voices, The Florida Review, Sycamore Review and Nimrod. A collection of these stories, I'M NOT JULIA ROBERTS, was published by Warner Books in January 2007. Called "hilarious and heart-wrenching" by People and "a knowi...more
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