My Boyfriend Is a Monster 5: I Date Dead People
Age 12+
Comic Strip Fiction / Graphic Novels
My Boyfriend is a Ghost aims its wooden stake/silver bullet/pitchfork at the heart of the paranormal romance YA readers love, giving insight into real-world relationships everyone could use, and with True Love for its horror-story roots.
The big Victorian house Nora Reilly's family just bought was built in the 1870s. Nora's parents are renovating, and SOMETHING in the house doesn't approve. First it starts moving and stealing things, including Nora's music, then mysterious singing echoes through the night. But how bad can a ghost be, when he and Nora like the same songs? Tom may have died a hundred years ago, but he's still a teenager too. He hasn't had someone his own age to talk with in decades. And he's a bona fide poltergeist----he can touch and move things. But he's not the only ghost in the attic, and the others aren't interested in romance-or in playing nice with their new neighbors. Nora's parents want their home cleaned of spirits, and fast. The question of course is: does Nora and Tom's love have a ghost of a chance?
Creators
Ann Kerns has edited many nonfiction books for young readers and is the author of Australia in Pictures, Romania in Pictures, Martha Stewart, Troy, Who Will Shout If Not Us?: Student Activists and the Tiananmen Square Protest, and Did Castles Have Bathrooms?: And Other Questions about the Middle Ages. She enjoys reading, travel, cooking, and music. A native of Illinois, she is a transplant to Minneapolis.
Janina Gorrissen was born in Frankenthal, Germany, and studied comic arts in Barcelona, Spain. Her works include the shojo manga Kairi (published in France by Les Humanoides Associes) and Black is for Beginnings from Flux. Her website is jgoerrissen.com.
