Tombstone Tea
by:
Joanne Dahme (author)
In order to be accepted by the in crowd” at her new high school, Jamie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from ten gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jamie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the...
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In order to be accepted by the in crowd” at her new high school, Jamie accepts a dare to spend one night in a local cemetery collecting rubbings from ten gravestones. Once inside the gate of the dark and frightening burial ground, Jamie meets Paul, a handsome boy who works as a caretaker at the cemetery. Paul explains to Jamie about Tombstone Tea: a fund-raising performance in which actors impersonate the people buried in the cemetery. The actors are supposedly rehearsing on this particular evening, but Jamie quickly discovers that they aren’t actors at all but the ghosts of men and women buried in the cemetery. When one woman decides to adopt Jamie to replace her lost daughter, our heroine fears she may never escape the cemetery.Full of rich history and filled with a cast of ghostly characters, the third eerily descriptive novel from Joanne Dahme is just as creepy as her first novel Creepers.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780762437184 (0762437189)
Publish date: August 25th 2009
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
This rather bland and unoriginal story about a young girl who can communicate with ghosts had some potential but read like a draft rather than a finished novel.
2.5 starsAtmospheric, with some highly visual descriptions of a cemetery at night, but there is not nearly enough plot. It might have worked better as a short story. Climax was extremely confusing and murky. Too little about Jessie, her powers and general background for everything. Vague and unfulfi...