The Year of Shadows

By Claire Legrand, Karl Kwasny (Illustrator)

A girl must save a haunted concert hall or risk losing everything, including herself.

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416 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Olivia Stellatella's life is in turmoil. Her mother is gone, her father is absorbed in his failing orchestra, and her only companion is a stray cat. Living in a crumbling concert hall, Olivia encounters four ghosts who need her help to avoid eternal entrapment. To save them, she must prevent the hall's demolition. But as she delves deeper into the spectral world, Olivia discovers that aiding the dead could have dire consequences for the living. Can she save the hall and herself before it's too late? Unravel the mystery in this gently Gothic tale.

From the publisher

Olivia wants a new life–and her wish might be granted by the unlikeliest allies. A heartfelt, gently Gothic novel from Claire Legrand that School Library Journal calls a “not-too-scary ghost story.” Olivia Stellatella is having a rough year. Her mother’s left, her neglectful father–the maestro of a failing orchestra–has moved her and her grandmother into the city’s dark, broken-down concert hall to save money, and her only friend is Igor, an ornery stray cat. Just when she thinks life couldn’t get any weirder, she meets four ghosts who haunt the hall. They need Olivia’s help–if the hall is torn down, they’ll be stuck as ghosts forever, never able to move on. Olivia has to do the impossible for her shadowy new friends: Save the concert hall. But helping the dead has powerful consequences for the living…and soon it’s not just the concert hall that needs saving.

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