The Last Resort

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Author: Entrada Kelly, Erin Interest age: from c 8 yearsPublished on 11 September 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 240 pages196 x 129 x 17 | 170g Enter the worl d of The Last Resort! Ghosts fromthe story will emerge from the pages of the book, allowing readersto talk to spirits from the past and help solve the mystery!Twelve-year-old Lila has two goals for the summer:Win back the friends who ditched her for being 'too dramatic'.Stop being so dramatic.But then Lila's estranged Grandpa Clem dies. Now she'll have tospend the summer in Ohio while her parents decide what to do withGrandpa Clem's creepy Victorian Inn. En route to Ohio,the family gets into a scary car accident. No one's hurt, but theremainder of the trip is ... odd. At every rest stop, Lila seespeople no one else can see or hear...On the day of the funeral, Lila spots an old man sitting in hergrandfather's favorite chair. It's Grandpa Clem. And he didn'tdie of a heart attack: he was murdered. Possiblyby someone who wants to control the inn. Because it's not a normalbed & breakfast: it's a portal between theland of the living and the realm of the dead. A hotel for ghostspassing onto the afterlife.With the help of her skeptical brother, Caleb, and their new ghost-obsessedneighbor, Teddy, Lila must uncover her grandfather'skiller AND stop the evil spirits desperate to make theirway back into the human world.A groundbreaking, spooky new series that allows readers to talkto ghosts and help to solve the mystery themselves!The next evolution in storytelling from New York Timesbestelling, Newbery Medal Winning author, Erin Entrada Kelly Show more