What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. Probably MG, book about a girl dating(?) ghost boy who keeps trying to kill her father at hotel/resort location [s]
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I have no idea what the book is and I want to read it, so I'm posting so I'll get the notifications for when its solved
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Kate would you say this book was more of a horror, suspense, mystery or something else?Do you remember anything about the cover?
Sorry, I didn't realize someone posted here!I don't remember the cover, but I felt it was more suspense than horror, wondering what the boy might do next.
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Bump. I've spent some time looking through the Fear Street series and related books just in case (we had a lot of those books in the class library) but none of them sounded like it or looked familiar.
That sounds so familiar... try this list? I got recommended it looking for my ghost book.https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
I went through the list but didn't find it on there. Thanks for trying.
A few more questions that may help.Could anyone else besides the girl see the boy?
Did she have any siblings/friends/sidekicks?
Did the story lead up to the family going to the resort? Or, did going to the resort happen at the beginning?
Location of the hotel/resort?
Were there other people at the resort; did they play a big role in the story?
I can't remember, honestly. The time she spent with the boy and the time she spent with her family rarely overlapped.I THINK she had a younger sibling of some sort. She might've mentioned a few friends, but they weren't with her at the resort.
Going to the resort happened very close to the beginning. I believe the very first chapter was the main character either learning they had to leave or having already learned it and complaining about it. They arrived there within the first three chapters, I believe.
I have no idea where the hotel/resort was. My best guess is just "America."
There were other people like some guys her father golfed with, but I don't remember any of them being particiularly important to the story.
Room 13
from the Nightmare Inn seriesThe first review on Goodreads mentions the father having a heart condition.
And, on Google Books, at the bottom are some of the common words/phrases used in the book.
"Golf" and "Shotgun" is mentioned
http://books.google.com/books?id=6YJR...
And, a lengthy snarky recap here
http://pointhorror.inthemoonlight.net...
The beginning of the above recap mentions the girl trying on a dress for a Last Dance.
By the way, you gave a really good description.
oh my god, that's it. Thank you! (And that last link is hilarious.)
Oh yay!!!! I'm so glad you found it :D
At the hotel, she befriends a boy who she either dates or is portrayed as a possible romantic interest. He seems to empathize with her about her dad, but his behaviour in regards to her father keeps getting more and more disturbing/violent. At one point she and him are on some kind of ledge around the golf course where her dad is golfing and the boy raises a gun and pretends to shoot at her dad. I can't remember any of the other things he did, but I think there were a few suspicious situations where her dad could've gotten hurt or what happened could've triggered a heart attack.
In the end (view spoiler)[her father lives and it's revealed the boy is actually a ghost or some kind of unhappy spirit. Years ago, the boy used to squat in the building with his mother when it was a hideout for the homeless. His mother was abusive and beat him to death. I think he lifted his shirt to show her the bruises / wounds when it's revealed. (hide spoiler)]