Sheets Contributor(s): Thummler, Brenna (Author) |
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ISBN: 194130267X ISBN-13: 9781941302675 Publisher: Oni Press OUR PRICE: $14.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels - Paranormal - Juvenile Fiction | Ghost Stories - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2018932765 |
Lexile Measure: 400 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.4" (1.15 lbs) 240 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 198644 Reading Level: 3.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "For days after reading Brenna Thummler's Sheets I have been wandering my neighborhood, haunted, enchanted, and in need of freshly pressed clothing." --Lemony Snicket Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen-year-old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she's worked for. Wendell is a ghost. A boy who lost his life much too young, his daily routine features ineffective death therapy, a sheet-dependent identity, and a dangerous need to seek purpose in the forbidden human world. When their worlds collide, Marjorie is confronted by unexplainable disasters as Wendell transforms Glatt's Laundry into his midnight playground, appearing as a mere sheet during the day. While Wendell attempts to create a new afterlife for himself, he unknowingly sabotages the life that Marjorie is struggling to maintain. Sheets illustrates the determination of a young girl to fight, even when all parts of her world seem to be conspiring against her. It proves that second chances are possible whether life feels over or life is over. But above all, it is a story of the forgiveness and unlikely friendship that can only transpire inside a haunted laundromat. |