White Smoke

Name: White Smoke
Author: Tiffany D. Jackson
ISBN: 9780063029118

Tiffany D. Jackson

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White Smoke won the YALSA Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Book of the Year and was an Amazon Best Book of the Month, a Parade Best YA Book of the Year, an Indigo Best Book of the Year, an SLJ Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper. The renovated picture-perfect home on Maple Street, sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by wary neighbors has its . . . secrets. That's only half the problem: household items vanish, doors open on their own, lights turn off, shadows walk past rooms, voices can be heard in the walls, and there's a foul smell seeping through the vents only Mari seems to notice. Worse: Piper keeps talking about a friend who wants Mari gone. But "running from ghosts" is just a metaphor, right? As the house closes in, Mari learns that the danger isn't limited to Maple Street. Cedarville has its secrets, too. And secrets always find their way through the cracks.

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