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All member reviews for Ghostgirl

Teen, 18 years old
June 2, 2009
 
THIS BOOK IS KILLER!
I think some people don't get the satire of this book. It is GENIUS! I can not wait for Ghostgirl Homecoming! Ghostgirl is the new Twilight - it's original, hysterical and profound.

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Teen, 17 years old
September 23, 2009
 
Interesting take on life
i thought that this book was brilliant and really quite interesting. the language in some parts may not be appropriate but most kids should be able to handle it. charlotte learns alot so i think that everyone could learn a thing or two from this book. i loved it.

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Teen, 16 years old
December 30, 2010
 
not good for children, but a good laugh for tweens and up.
i thought it was a very good novel.Yes some of the pages are unaporiate, but its not lilke we havn't heard this stuff before...

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Kid, 11 years old
January 7, 2011
 
awesome!
It's awesome! I LOVE GHOSTGIRL! There's swears, so what? I'm 9 and I love it! :)

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Teen, 16 years old
September 3, 2010
 
I agree whith peace2422 it really depends, and honestly I don't think that you should have bought that book for your 12 year old if a bit of cursing was a problem. I really do think that she's probably read waaaaaay worse though, and at twelve, I tjink that you may not have to monotor things as feverishly as im sure she understands not to do the things in the book, like commit suicide or chant out the f word. hope this helps!

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Teen, 14 years old
January 18, 2011
 
Not good for kids, tweens and teens would like it though.
I read this book when I was 12 and i loved it! The inappropriate part are very brief.

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Parent of 2, 9, and 10 year old
January 25, 2010
 
VERY BAD BOOK FOR ANY GIRL OF ANY AGE. NOT RECCOMMENDED
WORSE THAN BAD..this book has a SHALLOW content, it's an empty shell. The amount of swear words is disgusting, poor bad taste, suggestions of suicide, suggestions of sexually active young girls, everything you don't want your kid to be or do it's in this book. IT DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE READ BY ANYBODY! I bought it for my 9 year old girl, who is an avid reader, and she pinpointed all the bad things going on here..me and my husband sat down and gave the book a more through inspection and we were disgusted, and threw this junk in the garbage can!..It did not deserve to be given away to ANYBODY.

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Teen, 17 years old
April 17, 2011
 
cussing and sex it is a natural part
I loved the book and people need to stop hating on the book because so what if the is cussing and sex it is a natural part of life and if you have NOT given the "Talk" to you childern and they're over 10 you should because if you don't they will find out from friends, movies, books,exetra so please stop hateing on thid book

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Kid, 11 years old
March 30, 2011
 
Epic!
I love this book! Just got done reading it... Just cried my eyes out because.... Well you have to read the book :P

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Teen, 14 years old
March 10, 2011
 
HORRIBLE!
I started to read the book, completely open minded, as any good reader is with any book. I shut it and walked away after not too many chapters. Charloette, after dying and becoming invisible, sneaks into the boys locker room to watch her crush get changed!! what is THAT?!?! Definitly NOT aprropriate for kids. The crush also watches a girl get changed through a mirror! This is not something I think anyone would want to read. EVER!

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Teen, 16 years old
November 19, 2010
 
Confusing, much too long, mess of a book.
I found this book to be very poorly written, and confusing at times. There were so many band names thrown around, it felt like I was reading the author's iPod playlist, not a book. There's a lot of talk about sex. The main character Charlotte is very selfish and will stop at nothing to get the attention of her crush,even after she's dead, which if you ask me, isn't a very good message for teen girls. There were also a lot of sentences that didn't make sense, "hence poorly written."

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Teen, 18 years old
July 23, 2010
 
Wonderously Strange, Inventive, Original and Smart
This is one of my favorite books, the 'consumorism' isn't bad, or poorly potrayed. The author uses quotes and discriptions of bands, to help illustrate the tone and style of the book's individual chapters (she also does a bit of a 'life lesson' at the opening of each chapter about love, life, and friendship that any girl (no matter how much of a die hard goth) will melt at. the dark humor is softly used (imagine Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas's humor, set in a highschool) but my first reaction to the entire novel when it first came out when i read it was Beetlejuice, only toned down with not as much adult material. the sexual material is not too extreme with some kissing, and Charlotte never sees the boy entirely unclothed (boxers still on, nothing too graphic) while the descriptions of the dead teens are a bit gross, they're not very extreme, if your kids could watch "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" (which was rated Y7) they could handle the minimal gore and almost non exisistent violence in this book. Language is not skimped out on, though it is infrequent, they do hit you with h****, s***, f***, and a few other insults from the tough-as-nails secondary main character, Scarlett. overall this is one of my favorite books out of modern titles with a beautiful echo of Edgar Allan Poe's horror tales, as well as MANY CLASSIC LITERATURE REFERENCES throughout that will have intelligent teens squelling over the poetry of it all.e P.S. this isn't much of a tear jerker, if you're afraid of how depressing it will be. Death is merely like entering another level of schooling (literally) and it is also nearly painless (she feels herself unable to breathe before she's seemlessly in the world of the dead. Christain veiws are not compromised too much, as she has yet to reach Heven yet she has the belief that she will, but she finds out that she has not been sent down there either.

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Teen, 17 years old
October 25, 2010
 
Perfect for ages 10 and up
Reccomend u read it

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Adult
June 24, 2009
 
I read it and i agree with a previous review that the writing isn't that good. It is sort of suspenseful but could be better. If I can remember, there was a lot of dialogue. Not very descriptive but, hey, the quotes and graphics are good, like poetic, i guess.

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Teen, 18 years old
March 13, 2011
 
this book is amazing.. its the only book iv ever read, and i think it was amazing.. im currently starting the second book. its not too bad its a bit slow but its getting better =) im so exited to finish it and hopefuly there is a 3rd one coming out soon =)

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Teen, 17 years old
November 23, 2010
 
don't care it was good!!
Best Book Ever except for Twilight and the House of Night Series of course!!!!!! :P

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Parent of 7 and 13 year old
August 9, 2010
 
Not meant for Tweens, Meant for Kids in HS
LANGUAGE IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16. We bought this book thinking it would be a good read for our daughter who is 12. It was in the junior section of our store and I have never had problems with books in that area. I normally monitor everything that she reads yet I thought this would be safe. I prefer my 12 yr old not to be subjected to the language and sexual undertone that is meant in some of the jokes. To rate this as appropriate for 13 yrs old is not even a good idea. Maybe I have on blinders but I do not want her reading material that is meant for older teenagers. This book needs to be taken out of the junior section and needs and explicit lyric label on it like the CDs have.

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Teen, 14 years old
August 16, 2010
 
ghost girl rules
I really love this book.....but it's not for small children. But I think that "Doesn't deserve to be read by anybody" is harsh. This book has good humor and an amazing plot. Some parents just can't be realistic about what their kids are going to be talking about. We can't all be 5 forever. If you didn't think it was appropriate, you shouldn't have bought it for your child. It being age appropriate really depends on how much your children know about things and how much they can understand or take with out being influenced by it. I read this at 11 and loved it. Life can't always be sunshine and lollypops and the sooner you realize that the better.

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Kid, 12 years old
February 27, 2011
 
Best book ever!!!
My most faveorite book I've ever read. There are some parts that are inappropreate but it is an overall good book. Charlotte aka ghostgirl really learns alot in this book. I would not recomed this for anyone under the age of 9 due to strong laguage. But it is a good read if you are like books about ghosts and aren't freaked out by people who have weird atributes sutch as magetts,exposed brians,scatches all over,ect.

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Teen, 16 years old
August 25, 2011
 
Read THIS book... and Read it NOW! :D
Oh my gosh!!! I loved this book. Grated there are some parts in it that are a little...mushy... but hey, it's not like we don't hear it at school. I just finished reading it again, then went online to find more books by Tonya Hurley, and I found out that there is 2 more books!!! OMG.. now I need to find them!!! :D

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