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    <body><![CDATA[Rebecca’s father has sent her to stay with her Aunt Claudia and Claudia’s daughter, Aurelia while he goes to China for a bit. Rebecca doesn’t want to stay with her aunt. To make matters worse, all the kids at school are stuck up rich snots. They treat Rebecca as if she was dirt. Rebecca could ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71594391">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me want to see New Orleans intensely soon.<br/>The description of Garden District made me google the place sooner than you can day &quot;Mardi Gra here I come&quot;.<br/><br/>Rebecca Brown's character was likable. She's not the typical 16 year old character that's so desperately wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71065962">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sixteen-year-old Rebecca Brown didn’t want to move to New Orleans. She loved New York City but unfortunately her dad had to go to China for six months on a business trip. Rebecca was forced to live with her quirky aunt Claudia and her insistently cheerful cousin Aurelia until her father’s return...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70611435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good story. It has a lot of historical references to New Orleans and New York City. It's not a scary ghost story, but more of a story about a curse on a family in New Orleans. It's an depth story that deals with a few other families and a ghost that haunts the cemetery/ the family and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67681615">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely a page turner. The writing is very concise and accessible and I found the story to be very intruiging and hard to put down! The story takes place in New Orleans, one of my favorite cities in the U.S. and is about ghosts, which I loved. I only wish the story of Anton and Rebecca were more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66997526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love a good ghost story so maybe my expectations going into this book were too high since I've never read anything by this author before. Needless to say, Ruined was a bit of a let down.<br/><br/>The ingredients are all there. A great setting to facilitate a spooky atmosphere, good historical de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62043862">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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