Review: This book has a few mysteries!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2012
This was a very sweet story. Almost twelve-year-old Michaela makes her yearly trip to visit her grandparents at her father's ancestral home in the mountains. Very interesting (unexpected) things happen there, and as is the custom for the twelve-year-old girls in her family, she's about to receive a gift. (But not an ordinary gift; this one has a bit of magic attached).Michaela and her mother butt heads, as many mothers and daughters do. She seems like a realistic pre-teen who wants to be independent but who still needs her mother. And there are a few mysteries that the reader wants to get to the bottom of. (Like, why are there ghosts in a certain room?) I don't want to spoil the plot here, but I will say that the story was unique and held my interest. I think this book would work especially well for readers aged 8 to 12.