Title Ghost Therapy (The Haunting of Pinedale High)
Author Mark Rosendorf
Genre Young Adult, YA Ghost Story
Publisher The Wild Rose Press
Book Blurb
Pinedale Central High School is rumored to be haunted. For fifteen-year-old Sam Anderson, his haunting comes from the bullying he suffers each day within the school’s walls. Sam doesn’t believe the rumors, not until he meets Jessica, a former Pinedale student who died over one hundred years ago. No one can see or hear her except for Sam.
Jessica convinces Sam to stand up to his bully. Unfortunately, the confrontation ends in tragedy. Now Sam is one of the ghosts no one can see or hear. At least not until he meets a former military operative, now Pinedale’s newest Guidance Counselor, Mr. Copeland.The two form a bond created out of Copeland’s determination to help Sam find his way to the afterlife. Their efforts, however, have consequences…some good, some not so good, and one that could put the lives of everyone in the school at risk.
Ghost Therapy opens the series, “The Haunting of Pinedale High,” presented by the authors of The Wild Rose Press.
Excerpt:
The third girl, looking over Britney’s left shoulder, let out a huge cackle. She was a girl I’d never seen in the school, or in town, before. If I had, surely, I’d have remembered those long, brown braids that hung over both shoulders and past her belly. And the dress that covered her arms to her wrists and draped down to her toes—it looked like something from that old TV-show, Little House on…something. I didn’t know any girls still wore those… Well, not until this one.
But what really stood out to me was the fact that I could see the stocked bookshelves behind her. Somehow, I was seeing everything behind this girl as if I was looking through her. It was like she was there, but she wasn’t. It was actually kind of cool although I didn’t know how she was doing it, or why she was dressed like someone from the early nineteen hundreds or whenever. Halloween was a few months back and there weren’t any themed parties in the school or the town, at least none I knew about, or was invited to. I couldn’t help myself; I had to ask.
I ran up to the table, facing the three girls. I gazed 24 directly at the strange one. “I don’t mean to be, like, rude or nothing, but where did you get that old fashioned dress?”
Britney and Paige lifted their heads from the textbook and eyed me with the usual faces of disdain. “What the hell are you talking about, Loser?” Britney growled.
“Not you. Her.” I pointed at the strange girl that, as I stood closer, I really could see through her. What was the word we learned in science class…transparent. Yeah, that was it. This girl was transparent. “Do you two know her? How is she doing that?”
Paige peered around the library, then back at me. “Her who, Sam? Doing what?”
The strange girl’s eyes went wide. With a huge smile across her face, she asked me one strange question. In fact, it was the strangest question I had ever been asked in my entire life.
“You can really see me?”
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Author Biography
By day, Mark Rosendorf is a high school guidance counselor in the New York City Department of Education’s Special Education district. He is also a former magician. Mark shares his knowledge of magic with his students as part of the school’s Performing Arts program. He uses stage magic to help teach teamwork and build confidence in his students.
But, at night, Mark takes off his glasses, throws on his cape, and becomes the author of the award-winning series, “The Witches of Vegas.
Mark is also credited with published novels in various genres including The Rasner Effect series. He eventually decided on an early retirement from writing. When asked why, Mark’s usual answer was because he lost his favorite pen.
Then, one night, at two a.m., a new and unique story shot into his brain like a lightning bolt, screaming for him to write it. Suddenly, despite the decision to never write again, Mark found himself spending several nights taking notes on the characters and their stories. That is how The Witches of Vegas was born and is now on these pages.
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