Title: Walk of the Spirits
Author: Richie Tankersley Cusick
Publisher: Speak
Pages: 328
Place found: Barns and Noble. It had an interesting cover.
Summary: In Walk of the Spirits, a teenage girl, Miranda Barnes, moves to her mother’s home town because a hurricane destroyed her home. Her grandfather and mother don’t get along well and never talk. Interested about her grandfather, she finds out that he can talk to ghost and so can she because the gift skips a generation. Even though it scares her, she tries to follow her grandfather’s footsteps and help the spirits, because her grandfather dies.
Audience: Teenage girls would be the appropriate audiences for the novel, because it’s a girly book with not much action.
Author’s Writing Style: The author writes in an easy-to-relate-to style for teenagers. “Miranda didn’t realize she was staring. Not until Ashley turned and beamed her a perfect white smile, (Cusick 3). She brings common themes into her book making it relatable.
Passages: “’It’s me, Grandpa. I’m how they’ll get there,’” (Cusick 208).& nbsp; I liked this quote because it’s the turning point of the whole novel, when Miranda finally realizes that no one else can really help the spirits besides herself.
“Puzzled, she spread her fingers and looked closer. In the room’s pale glow, she could see the small, familiar object nestled there against her palm. […] It was a piece of braded twine,” (Cusick 153). In this quote she realizes that the people in her dreams aren’t fake because one gave her a real object to hold.
“Oh, and some women even wove them out of their hair,” (Cusick 191). This quote shows some historical information in the small town. The piece of twine that the ghost gave her was really a piece of a pocked watch chain, woven out of human hair.0A
Relation to the book: The book was easy to relate too but not very challenging. I got it a few years ago and never read it yet so I wanted to, and it turned out to be too easy. It was interesting to read, but lost some of its value because of lack of vocabulary. I would recommend it to girls but not of our grade, only because of the vocabulary, other than that it was a good book.
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This book reminds me of a series called 'The Mediator' by Meg Cabot that I read in 8th grade. It was very good, so it's possible that this book might interest me too. However since it is an easy book, I'd probably rather read something that would be more age-appropriate. I don't plan on ever reading this book, but I would maybe recommend it to someone younger than me that may be iterested in such things.
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