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Author: Hanna Alkaf
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: HarperCollins
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.40cm
Weight: 0.191kg
ISBN: 9780062940964
ISBN 10: 0062940961
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 31 March 2022
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Grippingly heart-wrenching and speaks to deeper themes of family, trauma, and friendship...a fascinating, page-turning tale. -- <strong><em>Kirkus Reviews </em>(starred review)</strong> Alkaf's middle-grade debut is unapologetically-and beautifully-Malaysian... it sizzles with tension and safe-but-ghoulish imagery, without letting go of the heartfelt thread of love between a girl and her ghost. -- <em>Booklist</em> I can't stop thinking about THE GIRL AND THE GHOST, a desperately beautiful novel about the many ways people can be haunted and the transformative power of friendship and love. A spellbinding story, told with an enormous heart. -- Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award Longlist title, <em>The Real Boy</em> Delightfully gruesome, humorous, haunted and heart wrenching, The Girl and the Ghost is an intense tale of grief, family, friendship and forgiveness. -- Robin Yardi, author of <em>The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez</em> An entertaining convergence of the supernatural with the everyday... touches of contemporary Malaysian life enrich the background: ethnic and religious diversity, layers of rapid social change, and loving descriptions of food abound. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Grippingly heart-wrenching and speaks to deeper themes of family, trauma, and friendship...a fascinating, page-turning tale. -- <em>Kirkus Reviews </em><strong>(starred review)</strong> Alkaf's middle-grade debut is unapologetically-and beautifully-Malaysian... it sizzles with tension and safe-but-ghoulish imagery, without letting go of the heartfelt thread of love between a girl and her ghost. -- <em>Booklist</em> I can't stop thinking about THE GIRL AND THE GHOST, a desperately beautiful novel about the many ways people can be haunted and the transformative power of friendship and love. A spellbinding story, told with an enormous heart. -- Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award Longlist title, <em>The Real Boy</em> Delightfully gruesome, humorous, haunted and heart wrenching, The Girl and the Ghost is an intense tale of grief, family, friendship and forgiveness. -- Robin Yardi, author of <em>The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez</em> An entertaining convergence of the supernatural with the everyday... touches of contemporary Malaysian life enrich the background: ethnic and religious diversity, layers of rapid social change, and loving descriptions of food abound. -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Author Information
Hanna Alkaf is a writer from Malaysia, where the legend of the pelesit originated. She is also the author of the YA novel The Weight of Our Sky, and her work has appeared in Shape, Esquire, and Marie Claire, among others. The Girl and the Ghost is her first novel for Middle Grade readers. She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her family, and can be visited at www.hannaalkaf.com.
