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Synopsis
The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black. It doesn't help that the school itself is totally eerie, with ancient, dilapidated buildings tucked into the Northern California woods, a thick white fog swirling through campus. There are hidden passageways, odd reflections in the windows at night, and scariest of all is the vast lake rumored to have captured the ghost of a girl who drowned many years ago. What Lindsay doesn't yet realize is that Mandy and her cohorts are becoming possessed by spirits who have haunted the school for two hundred years. Spirits who want someone dead... And that someone is Lindsay.
Is Possessions appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Teens will encounter supernatural possession, spirits, ritualistic activity, and threats of death in a gothic boarding school setting. The atmosphere is eerie and horror-focused with supernatural danger rather than graphic violence.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, possession, and drowning (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens who love creepy boarding school mysteries with supernatural twists will be drawn into Lindsay's fight for survival against possessed classmates.