by Adele Griffin
Starting this book I was leaning towards giving it a 3.5 stars but towards the middle, there was a plot twist that was too sudden between to characters that was probably very predictable to those that have read this book but it was too big of a change that my interest in the rest of the book dwindle...
I've been wanting to read this book for AGES so imagine how happy I was to a) get a signed copy at ALA and b) that it turned out to be AWESOME. This is set during the Civil War, and there are ghosts and conspiracies and interesting historically-accurate bits (including early Spiritualism, one of my ...
Blurb:A ghost will find his way home. Jennie Lovell's life is the very picture of love and loss. First she is orphaned and forced to live at the mercy of her stingy, indifferent relatives. Then her fiancé falls on the battlefield, leaving her heartbroken and alone. Jennie struggles to pick up the pi...
Jennie Lovell has lost much. Orphaned, she and her twin brother Toby go to live with her miserly relatives, where she eventually falls in love. Then she loses her twin brother to the Civil War, and now it looks as though she’s lost her fiancé, Will, too. Will’s brother Quinn is the only one to retur...
I didn't really have any idea what this was about when I picked it up but I was pleasantly surprised. I do wish the some of the captions/letters were larger though. I had a hard time reading some of the handwriting in the illustrations. The book was creepy and atmospheric and kept me on my toes. I...
It's not a graphic novel, but it is a book who's art is vital to conveying information. And such cool art it is. I thought Griffin did a great job of conveying just how tenuous the heroine's position is, with a grown-up A Little Princess feeling. The war background and the spirit photography deta...
"A ghost will find his way home." I would not call this book a graphic novel. It is an illustrated novel and the illustrations are stunning. This is a Civil War-era historical novel and also an effectively creepy ghost story that depcits the creepy Spritiualism movement, a popular fad at the time. A...
We meet Jennie Lovell, a 16 year old girl who has suffered more than her fair share of tragedy in her short life. No parents, a brother who has passed on, and an Aunt and Uncle who ignore her very existence. Life for Jennie isn't easy and now, with her fiancé dead, she's a burden that might be put ...
I love ghost stories. They are something new to me and so they are still unique. I haven't read very many but Picture The Dead ranks high among the ones that I have read and makes me very interested in reading more.Jennie Lovell does not have an easy life. After being orphaned, she and her twin, ...
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