Storm

Nicola Skinner

Book - 2022

Frances--you can call her Frankie--was not a happy baby. She was born amidst chaos, to two loving but unprepared parents. On a beach. In a storm. No wonder she's always had a temper. And you know what did nothing to quell her anger? Dying dramatically in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town. As a ghost, it's not so easy for Frankie to hide her rage, especially when suspicious visitors to her ruined home seem to have a keen and ominous interest in her. But when you were born with a storm inside you--sometimes the only way to calm it is to finally let it out.

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Subjects
Genres
Ghost stories
Fantasy fiction
Novels
Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Nicola Skinner (author)
Edition
First US edition
Physical Description
372 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780063071681
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

A girl becomes a ghost who is tethered to her family home. Twelve-year-old Frances Frida Ripley--ruddy-cheeked, with a mass of curly hair and strong, black eyebrows--just wants to have lunch with her best friend at the new seaside restaurant in town. It isn't her fault she was, as her parents say, "born raging" like the winter storm that welcomed her arrival. After she loses her temper yet again, her parents, who recognize that she's trying to do better, take her there as an early birthday present. Unfortunately, an earthquake in France causes a devastating tsunami that is heading their way across the English Channel. Coming to soaking wet with sand in her mouth, Frankie realizes she's dead, well, "dead-ish" and that she's alone. After a death chaperone gives her a sleeping potion, Frankie awakens 102 years later to find her home restored and opened as a tourist attraction. Annoyed by the tourists, poltergeist Frankie wreaks havoc only to grab the attention of someone sinister. Using her intense emotions, Frankie must kick up a storm to save herself and move on. Told from Frankie's first-person point of view, this is an entertaining read full of wit mixed with honest, intense feelings. Centered around the theme of allowing oneself to feel and experience anger, sadness, and pain rather than shoving them down, it challenges societal norms of adults "tidying up" kids' feelings. A hauntingly memorable mixture of humor and honest emotion. (Paranormal. 10-14) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.