I So Don’t Do Spooky by Barrie Summy
Ages: Young Adult
Cautions: Ghosts and stepmothers
Delacorte Books for Young Readers - December 8, 2009

Kiwi Magazine Review:
Sherry has a typical family life — father is a workaholic, stepmother is an overly health-conscious middle school math teacher and mom is a ghost. Oh, and so is grandfather. Meeting in the back room of the Dairy Queen, which is a ghost portal, she becomes part of a team to solve a mystery of who is trying to harm her stepmom. Although the book seems like it is trying too hard to cram many concepts and twists into the book, Sherry is entertaining and humorous, all while dealing with stalkers, ghosts and a boyfriend stealing 8th grader.

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Product Description
Someone’s out to get Sherry’s stepmom. . . .Can she save her before it’s too late?

Did you know that the main campus of the Academy of Spirits is at a Dairy Queen in Phoenix? Me either. Until now. Some weird stuff has been happening to my stepmother, Paula, and the Academy has asked me, Sherry Holmes Baldwin, to get to the bottom of it. They think someone’s trying to hurt her.

I really don’t want to get involved-my life is way too busy. Josh and I are celebrating two blissful months of togetherness. And my best friend, Junie, is finally showing a teeny bit of interest in clothes and makeup after years of brainiac behavior. But being that my mom is a ghost and all, me, my brother, and my dad rely on Paula a lot. So it’s not like I can just ignore what’s going on. Especially since my mom is competing at the Ghostlympics. If she comes in first place, she earns five minutes of Real Time.

And that means I’ve got to get involved in a creepy, freaky mystery.

But . . . I so don’t do spooky.

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