Title: As simple as it seems
Description: Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

Eleven-year-old Verbena gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with the help of an odd new friend who mistakes Verbena for the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Subjects: Puberty, Ghosts, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, Family life, Identity, Fiction, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, Family life, fiction, Ghosts, fiction, Identity, fiction, Adoption, fiction, Catskill mountains region (n.y.), fiction
Places: New York (State), Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)