Lilys Ghosts by Cheryl Drake Harris

Lily's Ghosts is a book I read that I found quite amazing. If you like intriguing novels with mystery set basis then you will love to read Lily's Ghosts. The characters are realistic with very emotional backgrounds that are played into the characters dialogue.
Lily is a young girl of 13 years who has to move away from her last home for the eighth time. This destination is now near Cape May. She's dreary at the thought of moving again, and none the less, it's into her creepy great-uncle's vacationing home, but her sadness doesn't stay for long. Homeschooling is not new to her, neither public school, but she decides on homeschooling as a way to escape making new friends...or enemies. Lily doesn't know much of her mothers side of the family, maybe because she didn't want to, or maybe because it had never occurred to her that other people exist beyond her broken home after her father left and never returned. As a way of coping with her loss she began habits of strange origin. She would hide her distress by going to the beach and building sand castles on the shores of Cape May,or go exploring places she should not have.
During the process of exploring her new home she started experiencing coldness, extreme heat, running water that disappeared in an instant, and a Kewpie doll that loved to toy with her mind. In an attempt to flee the house she literally ran into a Greek boy her age. Adventures began after that. Ghosts begin appearing to her, and a mystery in uncovered about her family's past. Maybe it's good, and maybe it's something she doesn't want to hear.
The plot of this great book is something personally I have never read anything like before. Lily thinks and acts just like a 13 year old girl, and it's absolutely amazing to see such precise decisions from an older writer.
So, after Lily meets the charming Vasilios, the Greek boy she ran into, they discover new things about Lily's past that would've taken her years to figure out on her own. Maybe even decades. Things like; What is my mothers side of the family like? Why does Vasilios take such an effort to accompany me everywhere? How did my great-uncle Max die? etc..
Maybe this book is only meant for a younger crowd, but on a scale of 1-10, I'd have to give it an 8-9. The reason is because Lily is such an interesting person from the beginning. Every page I turn, I need to keep turning! Multiple mysteries are racking my brain as to whether or not they're true. How will I know unless I keep reading? Perhaps you will find this book unrealistic, and a corny love story, but any book that can keep me reading until the very end definitely must have some potential.
So, DOES Lily get Vasilios? Does Lily find the mystery to her great-uncles death? Do you find out the connection between a librarian, a Kewpie doll, a psychic , buried treasure , and a jewelry maker?
To find out you'll have to read Lily's Ghosts by Cheryl Drake Harris


written and published by HANNAH