Ghostgirl
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Ghostgirl (Ghostgirl, #1)
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3.3 of 5 stars
Now I lay me down to sleep,

I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

And if I should die before I awake,

I pra... read full description

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Apr 19, 2008
Emma rated it: 3 of 5 stars
I had really high hopes for Tonya Hurley's novel "ghostgirl" after seeing an advanced reading copy of the novel due out in August 2008 (this despite the fact that the title is all lower case). The book design is really amazing: Taller and narrower than a mass market book, the novel immediately looks different. The dominant colors are pink and black. The cover features a silhouette in what looks like a coffin with a sash that reads "Rest in Popularity." Even the interior of th More...
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Aug 07, 2008
Heather rated it: 1 of 5 stars
I really was excited about this book. Then I started reading. Seriously, I kept saying, "Really?" How do books like this get so much money put into them for marketing? It felt like a screenplay switched to a book... but very poorly. It had a lot of "Then she did this," "Then she did this," "Then she did this." I didn't really care about the main character. I couldn't figure out if this book was supposed to be funny and light, or morbid. It would be serious More...
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Jul 27, 2008
wendy rated it: 2 of 5 stars
the cover is cute as hell and there's "wendys" in this!!!!! ;)

okay... i really wanted to like this book...but it just didn't happen so much. i gave it 2 stars but really wanted just 1.5. it's pretty much a ripoff of "heathers", "beetlejuice" and "carrie" set in current times. yet - it doesn't feel like it should be current...nor do i picture charlotte as how she's written. with references to current pop/punk bands, etc...the best thing abo
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Sep 05, 2011
Anne rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Ghostgirl by Tanya Hurley is a humorous book. It tells the story of Charlotte Usher who spent all summer transforming herself, in order to gain the attention of a popular athlete, Damen Dylan. Charlotte’s plan goes horribly wrong, however, on the first day of school when she chokes on a gummy bear and dies in the school’s physics lab. The rest of the story unfolds as Charlotte continues to try to get close to Damen. She also must learn the ropes at “Dead Ed”(the school attended by a group of More...
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Apr 13, 2009
Bridget rated it: 1 of 5 stars
I picked this up because I'd received an advance copy of the sequel, and I thought I should start the series at the beginning. I really, really wish I hadn't found the gilt edged pages and die cut cover so appealing. The book just looked so pretty I wanted to give it a chance, even though I had to force myself to make it through the first chapter.

The best thing I can say about ghostgirl is that it's a gorgeous physical object. But despite the fun little chapter headings and page deco More...
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Aug 05, 2008
Danyel rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Okay, so I picked up this book from the "TEEN" section because the packaging of it was so cute! Unfortunately, the adorable packaging is to make up for a pretty mediocre storyline. However, it does have its moments. Casper meets Beetlejuice meets Gossip Girl....perhaps a nice recommend for a 12 year old.
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Jan 05, 2008
Stacy268 rated it: 1 of 5 stars
I wanted to like this book. I really, really did! What cute packaging! What a great premise! What bad writing : (
Cliche, upon cliche, upon cliche.
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Jan 03, 2012
Luu rated it: 1 of 5 stars
Tejto knihe ublížili dve veci. Masová reklama, a nálepka YA. Obe klamú.

Najprv to prvé. Na Slovensku to bolo masové v tom pravom slova zmysle - kniha sľubovala originálny príbeh, vtip, humor, ľahký sarkazmus, skvelú atmosféru... A možno sa v nej aj všetko nachádza. Prvých 50 strán.

Počas celej knihy som mala pocit, že sa autorka nevie rozhodnúť, pre koho píše. Miestami by som knihu radila do 8-10, inokedy 10-12, a inokedy 14-16: skrátka, tá kniha nie je ani pre YA, ani pre deti More...
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Jan 29, 2012
Larissa rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Charlotte Usher is a nobody, ignored, overlooked and easily forgotten. She has spent her whole school life being invisible, never popular enough to be cool, never unpopular enough to be ridiculed. But this year is going to be different. Charlotte has spent her holidays hard at work planing, manicuring and making-over her image. This year she is determined to be noticed by all the right people, even if it kills her. Unfortunately for Charlotte that's exactly what happens.

Being dead is n More...
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Sep 20, 2010
Fábio rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Pela originalidade da sinopse e por ser um género que adoro ler, aguardei ansiosamente pela chegada da obra de estreia de Tonya Hurley ao nosso país. “Ghostgirl” conta a história de Charlotte Usher, uma jovem adolescente cujo único desejo é tornar-se popular e conquistar o rapaz mais giro do liceu. No entanto, constantemente perseguida pelo azar, morre engasgada com um urso de goma e morre. Mas mesmo depois de morta, Charlotte permanece entre os vivos e vai tentar de tudo para, mesmo invisível, More...
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Aug 22, 2010
Truly rated it: 3 of 5 stars
“Charlotte Usher, diharap melapor ke ruang 1313” Sebuah pengumuman pengumuman terdengar dari sistem pengeras suara. Di ruang tersebut ia diminta mengisi sebuah formulir. Boks terakhir yang harus diisi adalah C.O.D.

C.O.D bukan Cost In Delivery. C.O.D, Cause Of Death, atau penyebab kematian. Untuk kasus Charlotte Usher adalah tersedak permen kenyal berbentuk beruang.

Siapa yang tidak mau populer? Setiap anak tentunya ingin menjadi terpopuler di antara teman-temannya. Ia me More...
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Sep 11, 2008
Anna rated it: 5 of 5 stars
So far, this book is really good. It's like nothing I have ever read before, and it's got me hooked.
The way the book is put together, the art, the fonts, the colors and the pages, it's all so beautiful and it's amazingly well-put together.


"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake."


**I just got finished with this book, and I freaking love it More...
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Aug 05, 2008
Jennifer rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Reviewed by Breanna F. for TeensReadToo.com

"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake."

This is the year for Charlotte Usher. The year that she's finally going to be noticed. She's finally going to have what she's always wanted: to be a popular girl and fit in with the head cheerleader in the school, Petula Kensington. She feels that the first day of school More...
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Jan 29, 2011
Kristi (The Story Siren) added it
Charlotte has worked for this all summer. The first day of school. This year is going to be different, this year she is going to be noticed, this year she is going to get the most popular boy in school. She gets really close too, well she had the whole lab partner thing going for her, until she choked to death on that soft red gummy bear.

She doesn’t show up at the pearly gates instead she’s still stuck in high school only this time it’s high school for the dead. Now her crush really More...
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Aug 19, 2008
Rasee rated it: 1 of 5 stars
Like many reviewers I really wanted to love this book. First of all, it's one of the coolest looking books I have ever seen! Just seeing it on the shelf at the store made me want to buy it. And who can resist a book about a girl that dies choking on a gummy bear? The book started out with such promise, but very quickly becomes incredibly annoying. All the characters are badly undeveloped in the rush to finish the dull story so it's hard to care about anyone at all. Charlotte, who could have been More...
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Aug 13, 2008
Christiane rated it: 1 of 5 stars
What a great premise: "invisible" social outcast and aspiring popular girl Charlotte dies in a freak accident and becomes a ghost literally invisible to her fellow classmates. But what a disappointing book. Charlotte is shallow and impossible to like. The plot is convoluted and impossible to follow. None of the characters are fleshed out into any semblance of actual people. Important things, like why the Goth sister of Queen Bee Petula can see Charlotte while no one else can, are More...
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Apr 02, 2009
Carrie rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Great premise, nice packaging, but overall disappointing. I thought the writing was pretty wooden and plot pretty ludicrous (even for a fantasy book). I finished it only because I was hoping it would redeem itself (it didn't).
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Oct 25, 2011
El Templo de las Mil Puertas added it
"¿Alguna vez te has sentido invisible? ¿Alguna vez has querido sentir la popularidad en tu sangre? Entonces, este es tu libro. Ghost Girl no es la típica historia de instituto a las que estamos acostumbrados. Más bien, Ghost girl es todo menos corriente. Y esto es algo de lo que uno se da cuenta cuando, en el segundo capítulo, su protagonista, Charlotte Usher, se atraganta con un osito de goma y muere. Así de trágico. Así de sencillo. Sin embargo, para Charlotte, que siempre ha pasado d More...
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Feb 12, 2009
Nian rated it: 2 of 5 stars
The first time I saw the cover, I thought it was a manga book. The cover art truly blew me away—since when did publishers put that much thought into creating a fantastic cover for a simple book? It looked like it should have been on the shelf advertising tattoo art, or artistic styles, so of course, I was curious to read it. After all, it had a nice premise. Pretty cute, even, in a The Lovely Bones meets The Clique kind of way: Dead girl and girl trying hard to fit in.

The storyline More...
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Dec 14, 2011
Liyana rated it: 3 of 5 stars
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Oct 25, 2011
Hannah rated it: 4 of 5 stars
i had to change my review 3 times before i decided on 4 stars.

everyone seems to hate this book, and usually im into books that are... deeper. but this book was kind of funny, and creative. sometimes people need to sit down and relax their mind, and have a book that doesnt require much thinking.. you only watch it because it makes you feel good. like.. jersey shore.. or judge judy.

the book was funny. there were points where i actually laughed out loud. was it deep? no. More...
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Sep 22, 2011
Gabriella rated it: 5 of 5 stars
when I first read this book I didn't think it would be worth it. By the time I came to the second chapter I couldn't put the book down.
I finished this book in one month, which is a very short period for me. I really enjoyed reading it and when I found out there were two more books following this one, I couldn't wait to start reading the rest of the novel. It's one of those books that you are so concentrated while reading it, that you can imagine yourself seeing everything that is happening More...
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Jun 05, 2011
Karen rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Puns and allusions and wordplay galore in this one! Charlotte Usher is determined that she is NOT going to be one of the invisible wallflowers at Hawthorne High any more. Unfortunately, her plan derails when she chokes on a gummi bear on her way out of first period physics class on the first day of school... and dies. Charlotte discovers that even though she's dead, she still has to graduate! Arriving at Deadiquette school, which meets in the basement, she discovers a class of students who a More...
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Apr 05, 2011
Angel_pioquinto rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Charlotte Usher pasó el verano completo planeando su regreso a Hawthorne High la secundaria su nuevo año escolar, para que todo fuera diferente. Había estudiado a sus modelos, Petula y las Wendys, las chicas más populares y deseadas del colegio para convertirse en una de ellas: vestuario, dieta, peinado, y un elaborado plan para acercarse a ellas, había estudiado todo sobre ellas y, sobre todo a Damen, el chico de sus sueños, el que le gustaba, el mas guapo de la escuela. Pero al llegar, Charlot More...
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Feb 06, 2011
Amanda rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Charlotte Usher is a girl that many girls in high school feel like they can relate to. She is unpopular and feels invisible. She spends the entire summer working on renovating herself to look like a part of the popular crowd which mainly consists of the Wendys and Petula, the obnoxious version of Cher from Clueless. Charlotte's goal is to be with Damen who happens to be Petula's boyfriend. She chokes and dies on a gummy bear and is reincarnated as a ghost and meets up with other dead teenag More...
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Oct 24, 2011
Mónica rated it: 1 of 5 stars
El libro es terrible, pero terrible. Tenía que recordarme que la protagonista es una adolescente y muchos pasamos por ciertas etapas y, bueno, no debe de ser fácil morir de una manera tan estúpida... aún así, no. La protagonista es demasiado berrinchuda, inmadura e inconsciente y me molestan los libros que te dicen que ser popular es algo porque parece que la prota nunca aprendió lo que debía.
Es como un Crepúsculo que te quiere enseñar continuamente una lección de vida que no es.
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Oct 16, 2010
Angela rated it: 1 of 5 stars
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Sep 12, 2010
Denise rated it: 3 of 5 stars
3.0 out of 5 stars Campy and fun, September 11, 2010

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Warning -- this is not a serious, depressing book about death or the afterlife -- it's a fun, campy romp about a girl who dies (by choking to death on a gummy bear in an empty classroom)and whose passing is barely noticed because she was such a nonentity at her high school.

Charlotte spent the entire su More...
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Sep 07, 2010
Pooja rated it: 2 of 5 stars
If you ask me, I won't recommend it to you. But let me attempt a review at least. Deep breaths. Here goes:

"Never judge a book by its cover". I will smack this inside my head everyday and will pinch myself when I see a book with an attractive hard-cover, colourful insides and overall a beautiful physical appeal. So, yes, I was duped. I got this book out because of its sheer looks and was disappointed.

The main character Charlotte dies unexpectedly (and in a stupid More...
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Aug 09, 2010
Brenda rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Charlotte Usher adalah seorang gadis biasa yang mempunyai tekad dan keinginan yang kuat. Ia memutuskan untuk menjadi orang yang berbeda dalam hari pertama sekolahnya di Hawthorne High tahun ini, ia membuat sebuah recana yang disebut sebagai "Rencana Populer" olehnya-daftar yang disusun secara cermat dengan harapan agar bisa menjerat cowok yang ditaksirnya, Damen Dylan. Demi melaksanakan rencana-nya itu ia bahkan telah mengusut Petula, gadis paling populer di sekolah, dan dua orang sah More...
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