SuitabookResponsibility towards troubled spirits
Miranda feels bound by spirits’ whispered pleas and searches for a way to bring them peace.
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Richie Tankersley Cusick - Author
Miranda’s move to a historic Louisiana home coincides with whispers, shadows and a pleading voice. As she recognises a possible ability to communicate with spirits, her group members’ reactions and a growing responsibility to help them become part of her changed life.
When Miranda Barnes first sees the sleepy town of St. Yvette, Louisiana, with its moss-draped trees, above-ground cemeteries, and her grandfather’s creepy historic home, she realizes that life as she knew it is officially over. Almost immediately, there seems to be something cloying at her. Something lonely and sad and . . . very pressing. Even at school and in the group project she’s been thrown into, she can’t escape it. Whispers when she’s alone, shadows when no one is there to make them, and a distant pleading voice that wakes her from sleep. The other members in Miranda’s group project, especially handsome Etienne, can see that Miranda is in distress. She is beginning to understand that, like her grandfather before her, she has a special gift of communicating with spirits who still walk the town of St. Yvette. And no matter where she turns, Miranda feels bound by their whispered pleas for help . . . unless she can somehow find a way to bring them peace
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Sign in for personalised guidanceMiranda’s move to a historic Louisiana home coincides with whispers, shadows and a pleading voice. As she recognises a possible ability to communicate with spirits, her group members’ reactions and a growing responsibility to help them become part of her changed life.
Miranda feels bound by spirits’ whispered pleas and searches for a way to bring them peace.
Miranda’s move changes her life, while a school group project brings her into contact with Etienne and other pupils who notice her distress.
Whispers, shadows and a voice lead Miranda to understand that she may share her grandfather’s ability to communicate with spirits.
Notice how the spirits’ requests affect Miranda, and whether the story treats her gift as empowering, burdensome or both. The atmosphere may invite discussion of fear, loneliness and responsibility without assuming a particular resolution.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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