Author: Emily Gale
Publisher: Text Publishing
School: Star of the Sea College
Reviewer: Sybilla H
Category: Contemporary
It’s the start of 2020 and Harper is filled with anticipation about being in the final year of Riverlark Primary. She wants a leadership role, the comfort of her friendship group, and to fly under the radar of Riverlark’s mean-boy. But one by one things go wrong. When Harper’s best friends are made school captains they are consumed by their roles, while her own role – library captain – is considered second-rate. Then something major…
In a lonely lockdown, twelve-year-old Harper faces her final year of primary school without her parents. Stuck at home, her friendships start to fracture. Things get weirder when she discovers a WWI ghost haunting her school library. Harper must find the courage to face an uncertain future. I enjoyed reading about things that can happen to girls the same age as me, and it reminds me of Emily Gale’s books Elsewhere and Outlaw Girls. I think empathetic readers and lovers of school-related ghost stories would like this book.
