Set during the great
influenza outbreak in 1918, Mary Shelley finds herself separated from her
family and arriving in the bustling seaport of San Diego. She begins to settle into her life and then receives
word that the boy she is secretly in love with has been killed at war. When a man takes her picture and insists a
ghost is in the photograph with her, Mary Shelley sets about to prove the
science from the fiction. But is the
fiction real?
Content Notes:
There is a scene
discussed where someone walks in on Mary Shelley and her “boyfriend” and it
looks compromising from the door (it wasn’t, but that didn’t stop the person
from spreading rumors about what he saw).
Teacher Notes:
I thought this book was
odd. It reads a lot like a historical
fiction book with the ghost story part being thrown in almost as an
afterthought. While I wouldn’t
discourage kids from reading it, I don’t know that they would enjoy it or get
into it.
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