The Last Resort

The next evolution in storytelling from New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal Winning author Erin Entrada Kelly!Twelve-year-old Lila has two goals for the summer:1. Win back the friends who ditched her for being too dramatic2. Stop being so dramaticBut then Lilas estranged Grandpa Clem dies, throwing a wrench in her plans. Now shell have to spend the summer in Ohio while her parents decide what to do with Grandpa Clems creepy Victorian Inn. Its supremely unfair. How can she show off the new and improved Lila from so far away?Even worse, strange things keep happening. En route to Ohio, the family gets into a scary car accident. No ones hurt, but the remainder of the trip is... odd. At every rest stop, Lila sees people in weird old-fashioned clothes. People no one else can see or hear...Lila convinces herself its just her overactive imagination until the day of the funeral when she spots an old man sitting in her grandfathers favorite chair. She does a double take -- its him, Grandpa Clem. He tells Lila that he didnt die of a heart attack: he was murdered. Possibly by someone who wants to control the inn. Because its not a normal bed & breakfast: its a portal between the land of the living and the realm of the dead. A hotel for ghosts passing onto the afterlife.With the help of her skeptical brother, Caleb, and their new ghost-obsessed neighbor, Teddy, Lila -- the girl whos vowed to be less dramatic -- must uncover her grandfathers killer AND stop the evil spirits desperate to make their way back into the human world.Enter the world of The Last Resort! Ghosts from the story will emerge from the pages of the book, allowing readers to talk to spirits from the past and help solve the mystery!