Ghostgirl

Now I lay me down to sleep;
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake.

ghostgirl is a book series written by Tonya Hurley. The first book in the series, simply titled ghostgirl, was published in 2008. It was followed by two sequels, ghostgirl: Homecoming and ghostgirl: Lovesick.

The series is about an ignored girl named Charlotte Usher who's starting her final year at Hawthorne High. Trying to get noticed by her peers, especially by her crush Damen Dylan, Charlotte starts this year off on the other foot. While trying to be Damen's lab partner in Physics class, Charlotte accidentally chokes on a gummy bear and dies. After dying, she is required to attend an alternative high school for dead kids called Dead Ed. She later finds out that no one is able to see her. But, she's used to the feeling of rejection. That is, until she finds out her idol's sister Scarlet is the only living person who can see her. While using the Possession incantation she learned, Charlotte begins to use Scarlet as a way to communicate with Damen, but Damen thinks he's talking to Scarlet and he falls in love with her. But, Charlotte's classmates noticing what she's doing and it begins to take its toll on the class.

Tropes used in Ghostgirl include:
  • All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Petula's endless number of admirers (as revealed in ghostgirl: Lovesick) basically defines this trope.
  • Alliterative Name: About half the Dead Ed kids in ghostgirl.
  • Alpha Bitch: Petula. Subverted in ghostgirl: Lovesick where she is much kinder than before.
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Scarlet annoys Petula to no end, but that's just their conflicting personalities acting up.
  • Blondes Are Evil: Petula.
  • Celestial Bureaucracy: right after Charlotte dies, she has to fill in a form.
  • Chalk Outline: Stated in "A Wake." It was her "last, and well as lasting, impression on the Hawthorne student body."
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: most of the ghosts suffered ridiculous deaths:
    • Charlotte choked with a gummy bear.
    • Co Co drowned in her own vomit.
    • Maddy she tried to kill her with a botox overdose friend but killed herself.
    • Piccolo Pam swallowed her flute.
    • Toxic Shock Sally died because forgot to change her tampon.
  • The Cheerleader: Petula, The Wendys, and, for a few chapters in ghostgirl, Scarlet.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Scarlet is actually pretty nice though she dresses in black.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Scarlet.
  • Dead to Begin With.
  • Deceased Parents Are the Best: Charlotte's parents are dead.
  • Dude, She's Like, in a Coma: In ghostgirl: Homecoming Scarlet and Petula both get put into comas, and Damen kisses Scarlet while she's in her coma.
  • Dying Alone: Charlotte dies alone. In her Physics classroom.
  • Freaky Friday Flip: Scarlet agrees to switch bodies with Charlotte using a special incantation -- the results are that Scarlet becomes a ghost and Charlotte takes possession of Scarlet's body.

Charlotte: You and me, our soul makes three...me and you, our soul makes two...we are me inside of YOU.

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