2012 Manitoba Young ReaderтАЩs Choice Award тАФ Shortlisted
2010 Cybils Award тАФ Shortlisted
A Victorian garden, a fishing lure, and a ghost named John
Absolutely nothing is going right for Max Green. His parents have just uprooted their family from Vancouver to the bleak suburbs of Toronto, he has no friends, and everybody at his new high school is ignoring him. To make matters worse, heтАЩs in love with an older girl whoтАЩs completely out of his league.
When Max discovers a local library rumoured to be haunted by ghosts, heтАЩs immediately drawn to it. With the help of some cryptic messages, he begins to piece together the identity of the teenage ghost and the mysterious chain of events that have connected its spirit to the building for more than a century. But just who was John, anyway? Why has he chosen to contact Max? And what does an old fishing lure have to do with solving the mystery?