Download PDF Ghosts Raina Telgemeier 9780545540629 Books

Product details Age Range 8 - 12 years Grade Level 3 - 7 Lexile Measure GN300L (What's this?) Paperback 256 pages Publisher GRAPHIX; First Paperback Edition edition (September 13, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 0545540623

Ghosts Raina Telgemeier 9780545540629 Books Reviews

• I didn't buy this for my kids, I just bought it for myself. I gulped this book down in one quick sitting, and it was a wonderful reading experience. The illustrations are beautiful and the story is warm and engaging. Great reading for kids and adults alike.
• I loved it! I Found it interesting and now I want to meet a ghost!!!👼 me and my rabbit rate it 5555555555 million stats!
• I bought this book for my 8 year old daughter after hearing the author discuss it on NPR. I pre-ordered it not knowing much other than it was a child's graphic novel about Dia de Las Muertos. (I hope i got that right!) My daughter is a huge fan of the Far Out Fairy Tale series of graphic novels. When I received this in the mail, I was shocked at how large it was! It's the size of a small novel. My daughter isn't the biggest fan of reading, but this book got her reading before school, without being asked to. She finished it in 3 days! I am thankful I heard the author talking about this book, and I will be looking into more books like it.
• My kids immediately rock paper scissored to see who gets to read it first, big hit!
• Wow, this is so much fun. Raina has woven such a cool story and set it in a town that is a bit like Santa Cruz, a bit like Half Moon Bay (which she said inspired it), and a bit like a lot of coastal towns in Northern California.
  
  I suppose the title gives it away, but yes, this is a story of ghosts, but it is also a story of childhood, which Raina does so well. It is a story of illness, but also of family. It is a story of fitting in, and not fitting in.
  
  As usual the drawings are fantastic, and although she said it was inspired by Half Moon Bay, it seems to be more like Montara, a little further north. Also, I am quite sure she went to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, as that looks so close to how it looks it is as though I am walking with the two sisters.
  
  I don't want to give anything away, but if you like Raina's other books, you will probably enjoy this one as well.
• Cross-posted on Tween Book Blog
  
  Why I picked it up Raina Telgemeier is another one of those authors that I will read anything she writes forever.
  
  Why I finished it Telgemeier has a unique ability to take sensitive subjects and situations and create stories about how we can muster the courage to take the next step forward and recover from our own shortcomings. Ghosts deals with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that can cause a buildup of mucus in the lungs which can lead to other serious respiratory problems. Telgemeier takes us inside the lives of these two fictional sisters to explore the very real issues that individuals and families with loved ones batting cystic fibrosis must be aware of on a constant basis. It's a struggle for Cat to have to share her life with her sister, but she has also taken on the role of protector which perhaps prevents her from having to deal with her own fears. The festival of Dìa de lost Muertos that the town participates in each year (and is celebrated worldwide, usually around the same time as Halloween) helps Cat begin to put some perspective about how we celebrate life and how to live her life to the fullest. She knows Maya's cystic fibrosis will only get worse as she gets older, and at one point Maya asks her parents why she shouldn't make the most of the time she has now while things aren't too bad. Death is a weighty subject to be sure, but Telgemeier seems to arrange the notion in a context that is perhaps not so scary and foreboding to the reader. Thanks to the softness of her art style and the wonderful colors by Lamb, the story still has a lighthearted, wholesome feel to it - like having a conversation with a close friend. Ghosts is a story about how we connect with our family both in life and in death, and how they can give us the courage to keep going when the odds are against us.
• This book had the potential to be amazing like all of Rania Telgemeier's other books but it fell a little short. The story starts of very good and is very unique and captavating with a family moving from the Socal suburbs to a small seaside town called Bahia de la luna for their youngest daughter who has cf. Unfortunately thats when it starts to go downhill. While the main character Cat is very easy to empathize with, it feels like the storyline is very artificial. The book takes place over a span of 3 months, but unlike Telgemeier's other books this one falls way short. The book ends very abruptly and there is absolutely no resolution of any of the major themes in the story. I feel that if the book doubled its length and explored more themes about Maya's illness and what happens as her condition gets worse, it would undoubtedly make the story a lot better. Also, I wish there was more exploration about Cat's thoughts about moving and whether she grew to adjust to the different culture of the town. The concept of this book is very novel and the story that is there is amazing, but I feel like there was so much missed potential because the author made the book to short. Hopefully, there will be a sequel!