Countless children are in Lucely’s position all over our country. I’ll come back to the ghosts – don’t you worry!Īfter being briefly daunted by the state of Lucey’s world, I put on my big-girl pants to push my own anxieties out of the way. He’s also had two huge losses as of late: his wife abandoned the family, and he can no longer see ghosts. Augustine, and his Ghost Tour business has been threatened by outside interlopers. He’s a single dad, who just spent a ton on fixing up the house after a hurricane tore through St. We open with the financial woes of Lucely’s father- the bank is going to repossess the family home if he can’t make a HUGE payment by the end of the month. I worried at first that this tale might be “heavy” for a middle-grade reader it starts with some genuine adult anxieties and perils. There’s magic, monsters, hijinks, and plenty of cat-content that would have kept me giddy throughout. I did not read Ghost Squad when I was young, as it did not yet exist! This is a 2020 release, and I feel that I would have liked it very much when I in third/fourth grade.
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