The Last Resort - Erin Entrada Kelly

The next evolution in storytelling from New York Times bestselling Newbery Medal Winning author Erin Entrada Kelly! Twelve-year-old Lila has two goals for the summer: 1. Win back the friends who ditched her for being too dramatic 2. Stop being so dramatic But then Lila s estranged Grandpa Clem dies throwing a wrench in her plans. Now she ll have to spend the summer in Ohio while her parents decide what to do with Grandpa Clem s creepy Victorian Inn. It s supremely unfair. How can she show off the new and improved Lila from so far away? Even worse strange things keep happening. En route to Ohio the family gets into a scary car accident. No one s hurt but the remainder of the trip is.. odd. At every rest stop Lila sees people in weird old-fashioned clothes. People no one else can see or hear.. Lila convinces herself it s just her overactive imagination until the day of the funeral when she spots an old man sitting in her grandfather s favorite chair. She does a double take -- it s him Grandpa Clem. He tells Lila that he didn t die of a heart attack: he was murdered. Possibly by someone who wants to control the inn. Because it s not a normal bed & breakfast: it s a portal between the land of the living and the realm of the dead. A hotel for ghosts passing onto the afterlife. With the help of her skeptical brother Caleb and their new ghost-obsessed neighbor Teddy Lila -- the girl who s vowed to be less dramatic -- must uncover her grandfather s killer AND stop the evil spirits desperate to make their way back into the human world. Enter the world of The Last Resort ! Ghosts from the story will emerge from the pages of the book allowing readers to talk to spirits from the past and help solve the mystery!