What's it about?
Halle Whitby is your average teenager. She writes for the school newspaper, she’s baffled yet intrigued by the world of boys, she hates that she blushes so much, and she vehemently despises her Chemistry teacher. And, oh yeah, she can see her dead mother.
Halle Whitby is your average teenager. She writes for the school newspaper, she’s baffled yet intrigued by the world of boys, she hates that she blushes so much, and she vehemently despises her Chemistry teacher. And, oh yeah, she can see her dead mother.
A victim of a car accident when Halle was a baby, her mother
visits regularly and has all but raised her without anyone else knowing. It’s the Big Secret. Halle can see, talk to,
and touch her mother (and ask her for cooking tips), but she can’t tell anyone
about her. Otherwise she’d seem crazy, right? While everyone else is busy being
sympathetic to the plight of the poor, motherless girl, Halle has had a pretty
normal relationship with her mother, considering.
But trying to keep this secret is like trying to put a lid
on a bubbling volcano. Her best friend Marin doesn’t even know, but it’s
getting harder to stay quiet and stay truthful. Halle longs to tell, but she’s
worried about staying loyal to her mom, and she just doesn’t know what Marin
will think of this skeleton in her closet. Plus she knows the truth will only hurt
her dad, who has never really gotten over the death of his wife. When
circumstances force Halle to tell Marin about the Big Secret, the volcano
erupts and she risks losing her only real friendship. And when she finally decides
it’s time to tell her dad the truth, her heart breaks when he says he doesn’t
believe her.
Told from both Halle’s point of view and her mother’s, LITTLE
SUN is a supernatural story about the most natural of relationships—parent and child.
Even if your mother happens to be a ghost.
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