Believing (Lily Dale Series)

by Wendy Corsi Staub

Overview

After spending the summer in Lily Dale, Calla has decided to stay for a few more months, and will soon be starting school at Lily Dale High. She's finally getting used to her new home and her newly realized gift. But lately, the visions occur much more frequently and have a greater sense of urgency. There may be someone who needs her help but there might also be a killer on the loose. Now that Calla believes in her own ability, can she learn to use it properly? And will she be able to learn more about her mother's mysterious death without putting herself in serious danger?

Don't miss these other books for young readers by Wendy Corsi Staub:

Witch Hunt
Scream and Scream Again!

Lily Dale Series:
Awakening
Believing
Connecting
Discovering

Teen Angel series:
Mitzi Malloy and the Anything-But-Heavenly Summer
Brittany Butterfield and the Back-To-School Blues
Henry Hopkins and the Horrible Halloween Happening

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802722522
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/14/2010
Series:	Lily Dale Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	616,342
Lexile:	770L (what's this?)
File size:	351 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Wendy Corsi Staub is a best-selling writer of adult fiction, regularly appearing on the USA Today and New York Times best-seller list. This is the second book in her Lily Dale series for teens, set in the town of Lily Dale, near where she grew up in upstate New York. Wendy has had her own personal experiences with psychics in the town, and her adult best-seller, In the Blink of an Eye also took place in Lily Dale. Wendy lives with her family in Katonah, New York. www.wendycorsistaub.com
WENDY CORSI STAUB is a best selling writer of adult fiction, regularly appearing on the USA Today and New York Times best seller list. She is the author of the Lily Dale series-a paranormal suspense series for teens, set in the town of Lily Dale, near where she grew up in upstate New York and had her own personal experiences with psychics in the town. Wendy lives outside of New York City with her family. www.wendycorsistaub.com

Editorial Reviews

Gr 8-10

An exciting, stand-alone sequel to Lily Dale: Awakening (Walker, 2007). Calla Delaney, 17, has moved from Tampa, FL, to Lily Dale, a small town in western New York, to live with her grandmother, a registered medium. Calla finds that she, too, has the gift of seeing and hearing spirits. Indeed, a spirit visited her at her mother's funeral a few months earlier and alerted her to the fact that the death was not accidental. Calla must find out more about her mother's past, which includes a spurned boyfriend from Lily Dale High School. Now, a serial killer is attacking blond teenage girls. Through her visions, Calla knows the location of the body of the first one murdered. She also sees where the latest victim has been dumped, while still alive. Little does she realize that her name is next on the list. Even while these terrible incidents are happening, Calla must adjust to her surroundings, make friends, and begin a new school as a senior. She confides in Jacy, and he reaches out to help her handle her fears and suspicions. Her former boyfriend seems interested in renewing their relationship. And then there is the hot guy Blue, who makes Calla's head spin. This installment leaves unanswered questions that beg for resolution in yet another "Lily Dale" novel.-Lillian Hecker, Town of Pelham Public Library, NY

School Library Journal

Seventeen-year-old Calla continues to cope with the loss of her mother and with her own burgeoning clairvoyant powers in this fast-paced second series entry (Awakening, 2007). The opening scene chills readers when a nameless girl is lured into the car of a psychopath. Staub then turns to an occasionally awkward present-tense narration of Calla's life in Lily Dale, N.Y., over a period of 13 days. Problems in school and Calla's attraction to two very different boys alternate with doubts about her mother's death and repeated visions of a murder victim whose body Calla was instrumental in locating. Characterization is brisk and the background action is predictable. However, scenes that reveal the serial killer's thoughts and actions ratchet up the suspense, and the fate of the girl abducted at the start is guaranteed to garner interest. Although the killer is stopped in the final pages, readers will have to wait for the next installment to find out what really happened to Calla's mom-as well as which of the boys she'll wind up dating. Facile but compelling. (Fiction. YA)

Kirkus Reviews