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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
Joshilyn Jackson
#UD4442 Paperback, 319 pages; 2009 (2008) $13.99
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  On a hot August night, Laurel Hawthorne wakes to find the ghost of her daughter's friend Molly standing beside her bed. She thinks she's dreaming…but then Molly leads her to the backyard, where Laurel finds the child's lifeless body floating in the swimming pool. The police rule Molly's death an accident, but Laurel isn't so sure. Convinced that Molly was trying to tell her something, Laurel calls the one person who won't think she's crazy for seeing ghosts: her sister, Thalia. Only theatrical, outspoken Thalia has the guts to turn Laurel's reserved suburban neighborhood inside out to expose a killer. But the sisters' investigation unearths more than ugly secrets about Molly's death. It brings to light their own family's darkest sins, forcing them to deal with hard truths that will test the very bond of sisterhood. (KG)