The Horn Book Guide

INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Miller, Jessica

Elizabeth and Zenobia

202 pp. | Abrams/Amulet | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-2724-5 $16.99

(1) 4-6 Illustrated by Yelena Bryksenkova. At Witheringe House, her father's gloomy childhood home, Elizabeth's main company is Zenobia, a vivacious, morbid, obsessed-with-clairvoyance friend no one else can see or hear. Zenobia is sure the house contains a "Spirit Presence," and the antics Zenobia initiates reveal secrets from the house's past. Miller includes plenty of macabre moments and snootily funny exchanges alongside Bryksenkova's Gothic-feeling black-and-white illustrations.

Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2017