{"id":12454,"date":"2011-05-18T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=12454"},"modified":"2014-05-17T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T20:10:46","slug":"anyas-ghost-by-vera-brosgol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/anyas-ghost-by-vera-brosgol\/","title":{"rendered":"Anya&#8217;s Ghost by Vera Brosgol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/05\/Anyas-Ghost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28181\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/05\/Anyas-Ghost.jpg\" alt=\"Anya's Ghost\" width=\"406\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a>Unhappily distracted on her walk home\u00a0\u2013 her immigrant mother&#8217;s fatty cooking, her growing body, her less-than-ideal only friend, her unrequited love for the school jock, her disdain for that <em>other<\/em>\u00a0Russian immigrant with whom she has absolutely <em>nothing<\/em>\u00a0in common, no FOB is she! \u2013 Anya falls down a well. Literally. The well might be dried up but it&#8217;s certainly not deserted &#8230; as a girl&#8217;s ghost, lonely for 90 years, appears &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When Anya is rescued, she hopes she&#8217;s left the apparition \u2013 no matter how initially friendly!\u00a0\u2013 far, far\u00a0behind. But three days later, Anya knows she&#8217;s not just seeing things &#8230; because the ghost is suddenly following Anya around. At first, she&#8217;s rather helpful, with tests, homework, even boys! But Anya knows something is not quite right &#8230; and maybe this other-world friend isn&#8217;t exactly on her side.<\/p>\n<p>Before Anya loses her own life\u00a0\u2013 as troubled as she once thought it was, she&#8217;s gonna find out soon enough how good she has it!\u00a0\u2013 she&#8217;s got some careful sleuthing to do, including depending on some Luddite equipment to get to the truth. Librarians are sooooo going to love the retro-tools! Yes, today&#8217;s techno-young &#8216;uns can get a glimpse life before Google!<\/p>\n<p>Animation artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verabee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vera Brosgol<\/a>, herself Russian-born, makes an impressive graphic novel debut with this twisted immigration ghost story &#8230; not to mention it&#8217;s so freshly entertaining, it just might spark the birth of a spooky fun new series, oh please!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unhappily distracted on her walk home\u00a0\u2013 her immigrant mother&#8217;s fatty cooking, her growing body, her less-than-ideal only friend, her unrequited love for the school jock, her disdain for that other\u00a0Russian immigrant with whom she has absolutely nothing\u00a0in common, no FOB is she! \u2013 Anya falls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,73,30,2006,31],"tags":[2005,83,6608,58,75,11,242,25,2007],"class_list":["post-12454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-middle-grade-readers","category-russian-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-anyas-ghost","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-death","tag-friendship","tag-horror-ghost-story","tag-immigration","tag-vera-brosgol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anya&#039;s Ghost by Vera Brosgol - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/anyas-ghost-by-vera-brosgol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anya&#039;s Ghost by Vera Brosgol - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Unhappily distracted on her walk home\u00a0\u2013 her immigrant mother&#8217;s fatty cooking, her growing body, her less-than-ideal only friend, her unrequited love for the school jock, her disdain for that other\u00a0Russian immigrant with whom she has absolutely nothing\u00a0in common, no FOB is she! 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