Messenger Author:Carol Lynch Williams From PEN Award?winning author Carol Lynch Williams comes a ?haunting read? (Booklist) in this coming-of-age tale about a girl who can talk to the dead?even if she would rather not. — Evie Messenger knows that her family is different from other families. But it isn?t until her fifteenth birthday that the Messenger gift is revealed to her. Evie has... more » the family?s gift?a special power. Soon she realizes she is able to see and talk to the dead?ghosts?often with no idea who the person was. Or as Evie says: ?I see Dead People. It?s a Messenger gift.? That doesn?t necessarily mean she wants the Messenger gift. So Evie tries to ignore it but soon she finds she cannot. Can Evie find a way to live her life without letting her power take over?And what if the dead person is someone close to Evie?s family?« less