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"This is the story of Jo O'Connor, a girl who never gets to stay at the same school for long. She's used to moving several times a year, and the midnight phone calls her father makes just before a move.
Except after they move to Seattle, she wants to stay put. She meets Alex who seems to be interested in her, despite her best efforts to fade into the surroundings (a survival technique for the "new kid"). It turns out her father witnessed a murder some years ago, is under danger from the murderer, and they have to move.
To fool the murderer, Jo and her father stage their own deaths and she takes on a new identity at a nearby high school.
The plot thickens when students at her old school see her "ghost." Things get out of hand and before she knows it, her "ghost" has been nominated for the slot of prom queen.
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Katie Bodnick, Resident Scholar
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" Jo O'Connor and her father are in the witness protection program. They move quite often and Jo has learned to never get attached to anything or anyone. She has a flawless system - blend in. She does that until on her first day as a senior at Beacon High in Seattle she breaks her onm rule.
Jo gets swept in to the world of popularity and friends. She meets a guy named Alex Crawford. He's smart, funny, and hamdsome. Jo does something that she has always told herself not to do - fall in love. She falls headover heels in love at firstsight. She makes a friend named Elise who happens to live next door to her. Elise is Alex's friend and the girls become fast friends.
However, just as Jo feels like her life is going great, her father tells her they have to move fast. They are forced to fake their death and relocate. She comes back to visit a week later and Alex is convinced he has seen her ghost. Jo moves to a new place near Seattle where everyone has heard of her death and the ghost.Jo takes the new name of Claire Calloway. She becaomes a reporter."
alyssa akers, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Crime & Police story
Yes
Story of
- being hunted by killer/stalker
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- Momma gone
Loving/sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- almost none
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Pacific NW
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog
- mostly dialog
- little dialog
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