Genre: Horror, Horror/Comedy, Supernatural
Themes: Friendship, Ghosts, High School, Parents, Trust
Author information: Kendare Blake was born in South Korea and was raised in the United States by Caucasian parents. She studied business at Ithaca College in New York State, and went on to receive a Master’s degree in writing from Middlesex University in London. She has published three novels and several short stories.
Plot summary: Cas’s calling as a killer of ghosts takes him from town to town, and when he arrives in Thunder Bay, he expects it to be like all the rest. A glimpse of Anna Dressed in Blood, however, tells him things will be very different this time. Joined by a new group of friends, Cas must face the ghost who’s haunted him for many years... with a little help from unexpected places.
Booktalk: Cas lives a normal, routine kind of life. Move to a town, blend in, kill a ghost. Move to another town, blend in, kill a ghost. Armed with his father’s magic knife, and accompanied by his mother and their faithful, ghost-sniffing, thoroughly annoying cat Tybalt, he lives like this and is quite content. Until he moves to Thunder Bay. There he encounters new foods, new friends, and a new ghost like th ... Anna Dressed in Blood.
If you loved this, you’ll like:
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. HarperCollins, 2002.
Johnson, Maureen. The Name of the Star. Putnam Juvenile, 2011. (on this year’s GMBA list)
Stiefvater, Maggie. The Raven Boys. Scholastic, 2012.
Yovanoff, Brenna. The Replacement. Razorbill, 2010.
Yovanoff, Brenna. The Space Between. Razorbill, 2011.
Other books by this author:
Sleepwalk Society. PRA Publishing, 2010.
Girl of Nightmares. Tor Teen, 2012. (sequel to Anna Dressed in Blood)
Themes: Friendship, Ghosts, High School, Parents, Trust
Author information: Kendare Blake was born in South Korea and was raised in the United States by Caucasian parents. She studied business at Ithaca College in New York State, and went on to receive a Master’s degree in writing from Middlesex University in London. She has published three novels and several short stories.
Plot summary: Cas’s calling as a killer of ghosts takes him from town to town, and when he arrives in Thunder Bay, he expects it to be like all the rest. A glimpse of Anna Dressed in Blood, however, tells him things will be very different this time. Joined by a new group of friends, Cas must face the ghost who’s haunted him for many years... with a little help from unexpected places.
Booktalk: Cas lives a normal, routine kind of life. Move to a town, blend in, kill a ghost. Move to another town, blend in, kill a ghost. Armed with his father’s magic knife, and accompanied by his mother and their faithful, ghost-sniffing, thoroughly annoying cat Tybalt, he lives like this and is quite content. Until he moves to Thunder Bay. There he encounters new foods, new friends, and a new ghost like th ... Anna Dressed in Blood.
If you loved this, you’ll like:
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. HarperCollins, 2002.
Johnson, Maureen. The Name of the Star. Putnam Juvenile, 2011. (on this year’s GMBA list)
Stiefvater, Maggie. The Raven Boys. Scholastic, 2012.
Yovanoff, Brenna. The Replacement. Razorbill, 2010.
Yovanoff, Brenna. The Space Between. Razorbill, 2011.
Other books by this author:
Sleepwalk Society. PRA Publishing, 2010.
Girl of Nightmares. Tor Teen, 2012. (sequel to Anna Dressed in Blood)