Grass Angel

Written by Julie Schumacher

Abandoned at a retreat, Frances uncovers eerie secrets threatening her family.

3.5 Goodreads · 85 ratings

208 pages· 630L

$15.95Save 7%

In stock. Also at Amazon or Bookshop.

Bookroo's summary

Frances Cressen's summer plans crumble when her mother leaves her at a remote spiritual retreat. Stranded with her peculiar aunt, Frances hears unsettling rumors about Mountain Ash. Her brother Everett's strange behavior and her mother's silence raise chilling questions. Is her family happier without her, or is something more sinister at play? As Frances delves deeper, she must confront the mysteries surrounding her and the retreat before it's too late.

From the publisher

Frances Cressen has the perfect summer planned. She’s going to Camp Whitman with her best friend, Agnes. But Frances’s mother has something else in mind for the family: Mountain Ash, a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere. Frances can’t think of anything worse than Bible class and baby-sitting for eight long weeks– that is, until her mother drives away with her younger brother, Everett, and leaves Frances behind. Now a stranger is renting Frances’s house while she’s stuck living out by the graveyard with her odd aunt Blue. And Camp Whitman is a disaster. The boys in Frances’s group say that weird things are happening at Mountain Ash, and Frances begins to worry and to wonder. Everett doesn’t sound like himself anymore, and her mother never talks about coming home. Are they happier without Frances?

At a glance