I wink at her and she winks back. And then I set down my drink and head back to the dance floor. I know I’ve still got a lot of work to do.
For now, though, I’m going to keep on dancing.
Acknowledgments
Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this novel possible, and special thanks to my beta readers, who made it a lot better: Dinah Yorkin, Georgia Gray, Marly Moore, Molly Shayne, Leo Margolis, and Lucy Margolis. Thanks, also, to Jim Margolis, Bhargavi Sylbert, Katherine Cortas, Laura Langlie, and the fabulous people at FSG, including Janine O’Malley, Melissa Warten, Heather Job, and Mary Van Akin.
ALSO BY LESLIE MARGOLIS
We Are Party People
If I Were You
THE ANNABELLE UNLEASHED SERIES:
Boy Are Dogs
Girls Acting Catty
Everybody Bugs Out
One Tough Chick
Monkey Business
THE MAGGIE BROOKLYN MYSTERIES:
Girl’s Best Friend
Vanishing Acts
Secrets at the Chocolate Mansion
About the Author
LESLIE MARGOLIS is the author of more than fifty books for young readers, including two Annabelle Stevens books: Boys Are Dogs and Girls Acting Catty. She lives with her family in Park Slope, Brooklyn–which is also the setting of her new series, the Maggie Brooklyn Mysteries. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Acknowledgments
Also by Leslie Margolis
About the Author
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
An imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Text copyright © 2018 by Leslie Margolis
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2018
eBook edition, October 2018
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Margolis, Leslie, author.
Title: Ghosted / Leslie Margolis.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018. | Summary: After hitting her head, Ellie Charles, thirteen, encounters a mysterious girl who takes her to moments in her past that explain how she became a manipulative, unhappy person in a story reminiscent of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
Identifiers: LCCN 2017046445 | ISBN 9780374307561 (hardcover)
Subjects: | CYAC: Conduct of life—Fiction. | Middle schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Family problems—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.M33568 Gho 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017046445
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