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Seventeen-year-old Tracy Miller met the love of her life . . . thirty years after her own death.
Tracy was working at the House of Horrors at the Amazing Lands Theme Park when the fire broke out. Instead of running, she lost her life trying to save eleven-year-old Mack. Now thirty years have passed, and suddenly everything changes with the arrival of two new ghosts: a little girl named Ashley and a cute, seventeen-year-old boy named Josh. Josh would do anything for Tracy, but can he help her let go of the past?
Ride of Your Life is a bittersweet, romantic, YA ghost story that was inspired by a true event, the Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire, which killed eight teenagers in 1984, exactly thirty years ago this May 11th. It is a fantasy novel about undying love, and it won third-place in Smart Writer’s Write It Now (W.I.N.) contest in the YA category, which was judged by Alex Flinn, the author of Beastly and Cloaked.
Hang on. Love can be as terrifying as a roller coaster, but it can also be the Ride of Your Life.
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TOP TEN
Top 10 ghosts in books, movies, or TV
Ooh, that’s a good one. There are so many.
I’m more into comedy than horror, so my list of favorites skews more in that direction (or at least away from horror). It doesn’t make sense to me that ghosts would be any scarier than the people they were when they were alive. The ghosts on my list are romantic, funny, lost and scared, and generally less scary than the ghosts in typical ghost stories:
Cathy in Wuthering Heights (she’s hard to like, but so romantic)
“The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde
Casper the Friendly Ghost
The goofy ghosts in Ghostbusters
The romantic hero of Ghost
Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams
The ghosts in Pirates of the Caribbean
Moaning Myrtle and the other ghosts from the Harry Potter series
George and the other reapers and dead people in Dead Like Me
Sally from Being Human (the American version of the series)
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| The cast of Dead Like Me |
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Shevi Arnold grew up in Philadelphia, and her family had a season pass to Great Adventure in the early 1980s. She was nineteen-years-old and studying overseas when a fellow college student asked her if she had heard about the Great Adventure Haunted Castle fire. Eight teenagers had lost their lives. Like many, Shevi was shocked by the news. In her mind, she wanted to give that tragedy a happy ending. Ride of Your Life is the result.
Shevi loves writing, illustrating, and making people laugh—and she’s been doing all three since 1987 when she started working as an editorial cartoonist for a newsweekly. She’s also worked as a comics magazine editor, as an arts-and-entertainment writer specializing in comedy and children’s entertainment, and as a consumer columnist. Nowadays, though, she enjoys writing (and sometimes illustrating) humorous fiction, fantasy, and science fiction for children, teens, and geeks of all ages. Her other books include Toren the Teller's Tale, Dan Quixote: Boy of Nuevo Jersey, and Why My Love Life Sucks (The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer, book one). She is currently working on Why It Still Mega Bites, the second book in the Gilbert the Fixer series.
Winner was announced on 25th of May
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