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358 pp.
| Scholastic/Levine
| October, 2012
|
TradeISBN 978-0-545-43416-4$17.99
(4)
YA
Sarah's visit to her family's Maryland estate, Amber House, for her grandmother's funeral triggers a tangle of plots--two romances, a fabulous party, an imminent divorce, a brother-sister adventure, and a treasure hunt--all tied together by Sarah's gift for ghostly time travel. Eventually, her intervention in the past rearranges the present. Unfortunately, the Southern gothic and it-girl glamour setups pair awkwardly.