April Verduzco-Voss

Marching Backwards April Verduzco-Voss

How can the living move on...when the dead stick around?Twins Wyatt and Abbi Walker enjoy an idyllic small town life, marching in the high school band and working in their mothers coffee shop. But everything changes when their bus crashes on the way home from a marching band competition, taking the lives of several students. Abbi and Wyatt survive- and they soon discover they can see and talk to ghosts. Amidst the grief of their lost friends, several changes to their way of life, and the shock of their new powers, the twins must come to grips with a reality that seems so opposing to the life they once knew. In an effort to conceal their new found powers, the twins may pretend all is well on the surface, it's clear they are both struggling. Wyatt, with his survivors guilt in the face of a budding new romance. And Abbi, with coming to grips with her new disability and the loss of the boy she loved. Filled with a diverse cast and many poignant themes, this book endeavors to ask: How is one meant to mourn the loss of someone they still see? Readers call Marching Backwards a "Page turning read" with "origininal concepts, fleshed out characters, and a diverse group of friends whose banter feels natural." You'll find your self "Laughing, near tears, and enjoying every moment" as you read through pages that "tackle serious ideas" while balancing it out with "light hearted humor." Marching Backwards has received praise for the fact that "Gender, race, ethnicity, and disability is represented throughout the entire book" as well as the fact that it "is such a wonderful depiction of high school marching bands and the culture they create" And, of course, the "amazing suspenseful supernatural occurrences!"Get haunted by this YA ghost story now!*Quotes taken from reviewers Amanda M. Pamela W. and Emily C. Joshua B. and Cass C. *