Balancing act

By Lauren Barnholdt

Subjects: Dead, Ghosts, fiction, Single-parent families, Mystery and detective stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Family, Ghost stories, Psychic ability, Dating (social customs), fiction, Middle schools, Dating (Social customs), Schools, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, Fiction, Children's fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, School stories, Juvenile fiction, Mystery fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, Schools, Ghosts

Description: Kendall, almost thirteen, faces such middle-school issues as the mysteries of quadratic equations and her first boyfriend, Brandon, and also the ghosts who need her help to cross over, including Danielle the gymnast and Mrs. Dunham, Brandon's mother.