Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol reviewed by Claire

Anya's Ghost is a murder mystery ghost story. It is a comic book. My favorite books are comic books. The colors of these pictures are gray, black and white and dark purple.

There is a teenager girl, who doesn't have the best life ever, called Anya that falls into a deep hole. The hole has a skeleton in it. A ghost appears sitting on the skeleton. The ghost is named Emily and she can't go very far away from her bones so she is stuck in the hole too. She says she was murdered. Anya is rescued but accidentally has Emily's finger bone in her bag. The bone must have fallen into the bag somehow. So Emily can get out of the hole.

The rest of the book is about Anya trying to solve the mystery of who killed Emily. Emily was a nice ghost for most of the book. But the ending was not what I expected. The ghost got stronger and became able to pick things up and move things around. Then Anya went to the library and she was shocked  to discover a newspaper article that showed a picture of Emily and said "local girl missing after double murder". Now Anya knew that Emily was not murdered but a murderer!

Anya went back home to dispose of the bone but Emily had taken it and moved it around the house. She has turned very mean and scary. So when Anya finally finds the bone she brings it back to the hole to drop the bone in. Emily gets really mad and tries to push Anya in the hole but it had no effect. So Anya drops the bone in the hole and the ghost is dragged down with it. But a minute later Emily's skeleton climbs out. She doesn't look at all as nice as the ghost did before Anya discovers she is a murderer. Emily's skeleton starts falling apart and then she falls back into the hole.

This book was filled with smoking teenagers who called each other hot chicks.  There were lots of teenagers trying to be cool. My favorite line was "Dude, I have like only one sucky friend. My life is total crap".  Most of the books I have read are not as vulgar as this one. But is was very funny for me. Every time I came to a funny line (like the Dude one) I read it out loud to my family.