Tara Luna lives with her Uncle Pat, has
since her parents died. He is as best a parent as he can be to the young girl.
We meet them as they move to Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Another new school where they can call
her Luna the Looney, Moon Girl, or even worse, witch. Tara is not only psychic
but has a couple of hundred-year-old ghosts, Millicent and Henry, who provide a
little protection and advice and cause general mayhem to embarrass Tara at
every opportunity.
Other than her ghostly followers and
rare ability to read minds and peer into the future a little, Tara is just like
every other teenager: likes the bad boys, has a run-in with the head
cheerleader, etc. Sala follows the pattern of typical high school cliques that
all of us have run into one way or the other.
Dealing with the rigors of just being a
teenager and full of angst, Tara also handles being the new girl and the
knowledge there is a foreboding dark presence in the house she and Uncle Pat
moved into. By the time she meets the ghost of the young girl who was murdered
there, helps save the life of a student at school who is having a seizure, and
leads the police to one of her schoolmates who has been kidnapped, all by
demonstrating her psychic powers to her new friends, Uncle Pat is forced to
believe there is more to Tara than meets the eye.
Using real
places and street names in the Stillwater area helps bring this book to life.
In this, the first in the series of the “My Lunatic Life” young adult novels,
Sala gives us a plucky little heroine to cheer for and leaves us eager to read
the next book, for after all, there is still a murder to solve if the ghost of
the child in her house is to be appeased.
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