Suddenly+Supernatural++Scaredy+Kat

Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Do you like stories of the supernatural and paranormal? If so, you will like this book. The main characters of this story are Kat, Jac, Kat's mom, Orin, and Julius. Kat and her mom are special in an odd way, they can interact with the dead. People who can interact with the dead are called mediums. Jac is a music prodigy on the cello and Kat's best friend. Orin is one of Kat's mom's old friends. He can't interact with the dead, but he does detect energy from the dead. He helps Jac and Kat with a spirit. Julius is called the ghost but is really in a coma.

The story begins when Jac and Kat need to do a basic communications project for school. They end up meeting a little boy named Julius that is nicknamed Tank because he likes to play with toy tanks. Julius was hit by a car on his bicycle. Kat and Jac meet Julius and think he is a ghost, but he isn't. Julius was really dreaming the whole thing because he was in a coma for several years. At the end they meet each other again. That is when Jac and Kat realize that he is alive and Julius doesn't remember everything, but thinks he might know Kat because he asks "Have we ever met?" You know, he has to remember the pretty girl only and nobody or nothing else.

I think it was a confusing book, but at the same time really good. I thought the story was pretty funny and sometimes sad. I definitly thought of the story as a giant rollarcoaster. I would recommend this book to any 4th or 5th graders that like stories of the supernatural and paranormal.