Samantha Rindfuss

The Story Is Much Like Evil Versus Good.. A Teenaged Girl (Sophie), after losing her Parents to Death, has moved with her Grandmother. Her Grandmother is living in a house that has been a Funeral House. She is being haunted by a Ghost Girl.
In The story she has to help the ghost reunite with ghost's father.. After telling the incidents to her grandmother, she comes to know that her mother has also gone through these things and the reason for her death was the same girl ghost that's haunting her.

Like i Said the story is about how evil ghost loses to good human.

[YOU SHOULD READ THE STORY YOURSELF TO KNOW HOW SHE HELPS THE GHOST GIRL]

The Story goes on till Sophie gets rid off the Ghost.

Well, i was thinking about Sophie and Thomas Dating.. it can be romantic + Scary Novellete.. But itz good by the way it is..
The Author has used plain & Simple Language to tell Us A Story with no Ingredients to Confuse us.
Cant wait to Hear More Stories From Her ...… (mehr)

I received this free from Library Thing to read and review. This is the first installment of a series. When I first began the book, I was unsure whether I would read it or like it. However, since I read it all in one sitting, this is a real testament to the author’s ability to write. The story involves Sophie who moves to her grandmother’s after her father dies (her mother had died earlier). Once there, strange things begin to happen. She has a strange dream. She starts seeing a mysterious girl, who she decides is a ghost. The lights go out only in her room. She becomes ill. Her friends at school tell her that her house was once a funeral home, where the owner’s daughter died mysteriously, with her father committing suicide a short time later. Are all these connected? Sophie finds out just how they are. This story is, as I said earlier, well written and interesting. However, I think a young adult audience would find it far more interesting than an adult one because of the main characters and the tone. The author has combined the spiritual side with the ordinary, everyday life of the characters in a smooth manner. The plot is not very complex, which also helps keep the reader’s interest focused. In addition, the story is not all that long, which allows the reader to read the story quickly and find out what happens. The ending, though happening a bit abruptly is quite good and satisfying for the reader. Once finished with this story, the reader can move on to the next installment, where there will probably be mention of what has occurred without belaboring the details. I think most readers, regardless of age, will like this story and I look forward to subsequent installments.… (mehr)

The Amityville Horror meets Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in Samantha Rindfuss’s young adult drama Spirits of Lakewood: Hidden Secrets. Rindfuss moves the tale at an easy stride so the reader can grasp the details as they are being revealed through each phase.

In the story, middle school aged Sophie is sent to live with her grandmother Emma after her father dies. Mysterious occurrences arise when Sophie lives in her grandmother’s house, encounters that suggest the house is haunted by a poltergeist, hence the Amityville house horror connection. Sophie discovers from two friends at her school, Lillian and Thomas, that the grandmother’s house was once a funeral parlor owned by Mr. Turner who went insane and committed suicide after his daughter Carol died. It was rumored that he cremated Carol and hid her ashes in the house.
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When Sophie’s father dies, she goes to live with her grandmother, Emma. Before she even gets to the house, bad dreams start, dreams she later learns are being brought on by the ghost of Carol, a girl who died in the house long before. The ghost continues to haunt her from the first day, and then, Sophie learns from her new schoolmates, Lillian and Thomas, that her grandmother’s house is not just a normal house; it was once a funeral home owned by Carol’s father, a distraught man who went insane after his daughter’s death and eventually hung himself.
Carol gives Sophie an ultimatum; find a way for her to reunite with her father’s spirit, or die herself. Only Lillian and Thomas believe Sophie’s story, and they set out to help her comply with the ghostly command.
An interesting ghost of possession and danger, that tends, unfortunately, to drag a bit in places, but that is nonetheless an interesting read, and is probably written appropriately for younger readers.… (mehr)