The Girl with the Ghost Machine, Lauren DeStefano
The Girl with the Ghost Machine, Lauren DeStefano
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The Girl with the Ghost Machine

Author: Lauren DeStefano

Narrator: Brittany Pressley

Unabridged: 3 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/06/2017


Synopsis

What if a machine could bring back the ones we love? From New York Times bestseller Lauren DeStefano comes a captivating middle grade tale of loss, love and hope. In this beautiful and poignant novel, acclaimed author Lauren DeStefano tells a story love and loss, and what it means to say goodbye. When Emmaline Beaumont's father started building the ghost machine, she didn't expect it to bring her mother back from the dead. But by locking himself in the basement to toil away at his hopes, Monsieur Beaumont has become obsessed with the contraption and neglected the living, and Emmaline is tired of feeling forgotten. Nothing good has come from building the ghost machine, and Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work.or destroy it forever.

About Lauren DeStefano

Lauren DeStefano earned her BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Albertus Magnus College in Connecticut in 2007. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the Chemical Garden trilogy and The Glass Spare. You can find her online at twitter.com/laurendestefano and instagram.com/laurendestefanoauthor.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on May 04, 2017

Emmaline loses her mother to a sudden illness when she is ten and almost loses her father too. Her father becomes obsessed with creating a ghost machine to bring her mother back. His obsession results in a lack of care for Emmaline. Emmaline comes to resent the machine for the time it takes her fath......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on July 02, 2017

Check out this and other reviews on my young adult book blog, Here's to Happy Endings! The Girl with the Ghost Machine is an interesting story about a grieving girl who lost her mother to illness, and who is afraid she is losing her father to a machine that he is trying to build to bring her mother b......more

Goodreads review by Dyah on November 14, 2018

After City of Ghosts, I was hoping this would be a fun read too... But I was so wrong. This middle grade book is so sad and heart-breaking 😭 The good news is, the story becomes heart-warming towards the ending. . The theme is about dealing with loss and death. A gloomy theme for a middlegrade book, but......more