Year of Shadows

Olivia wants a new lifeand her wish might be granted by the unlikeliest allies. A heartfelt, gently Gothic novel from Claire Legrand that School Library Journal calls a not-too-scary ghost story.Olivia Stellatella is having a rough year. Her mothers left, her neglectful fatherthe maestro of a failing orchestrahas moved her and her grandmother into the citys dark, broken-down concert hall to save money, and her only friend is Igor, an ornery stray cat. Just when she thinks life couldnt get any weirder, she meets four ghosts who haunt the hall. They need Olivias helpif the hall is torn down, theyll be stuck as ghosts forever, never able to move on. Olivia has to do the impossible for her shadowy new friends: Save the concert hall. But helping the dead has powerful consequences for the livingand soon its not just the concert hall that needs saving.