Once the professionals are brought in, the problems keep getting worse: angry neighbors, terrifying problems in walls, and-most serious-civil permitting issues that put the kibosh on what work’s been done. Before bringing in the construction crew, the Heffleys attempt to do minor maintenance and repairs themselves-during which Greg fails at the work in various slapstick scenes.

Greg’s mom calls a family meeting to determine what to do with their share, proposing home improvements and then overruling the family’s cartoonish wish lists and instead pushing for an addition to the kitchen. When Great Aunt Reba dies, she leaves some money to the family. The Heffley family’s house undergoes a disastrous attempt at home improvement. Readers will root for Lucely and Syd as they try to save St. While it’s undeniably a ghost story, Lucely’s love for her family, both corporeal and spirit, carries the narrative, giving it warmth and depth. Lucely’s action-packed and ghost-filled adventures unfold briskly, with seamlessly incorporated and unitalicized Spanish. Lucely and Syd join forces with Babette and Lucely’s spirit family in the fight to save St. When they recite a spell they find there, they accidentally awaken other-evil-spirits of the town. Lucely and her best friend, Syd, decide to look for a spell that can awaken the dead so they can wake Mamá up, so they prowl through the library of Syd’s grandmother Babette, who owns an occult shop. At school, Lucely learns of Las Brujas Moradas, witches who fled Spain during the Inquisition and who were reputed to have a lost spell book. Alarmingly, after one ghost tour, the spirit of Lucely’s grandma, Mamá, goes dim. The rest of them are deceased but are still very much in her life, their spirits appearing to her as cucuyos, or fireflies.

Her father, Simon, runs a ghost tour business. Augustine, Florida, Lucely Luna works to restore the city with the help of friend Syd and the spirits of her family.ĭominican American Lucely Luna lives with her family. After unwittingly unleashing dead spirits on St.

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