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.
Subjects: Fiction, Friendship in fiction, Identity in fiction, Family life, Family life in fiction, Ghosts in fiction, Adoption in fiction, Adoption, Ghosts, Friendship, Identity, Puberty, Puberty in fiction, Adolescence in fiction, Adolescence, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, Family life, fiction, Ghosts, fiction, Identity, fiction, Adoption, fiction, New york (state), fiction, Adolescence, fiction
Places: New York (State), Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)