The Ghost of Drowned Meadow by Kelley Skovron

Author:Kelley Skovron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

The story arc for volume seven of My Secret Dream of a Boring Life was Morgan’s least favorite in the entire series. One of the things she loved most about the series overall was how all the strange and disparate characters from different races and worldviews somehow got along. But in volume seven, their odd, happy extended family fell apart.

It started off as an argument between Zophia and Kosuke, when he realized that in order to conquer the kingdom, she’d had to kill a lot of humans—and worse, that she didn’t feel bad about it at all. Zophia believed she’d done what she had to in order to protect the nonhuman races, and she wasn’t going to apologize for it. Their argument spread across the court, everyone picking sides. Things got so bad that Zophia and Kosuke stopped talking to each other altogether.

After that, Zophia Zye felt lonelier than ever, because now she knew what it was like to have real friends. In her sadness, she went back to being the haughty, cold Night Queen from volume one, but it didn’t feel cool anymore. She’d been through so much and come so far. It just felt like she was taking the easy way out.

Morgan sighed and let the open book fall over her face. She could skip this volume and jump right to number eight. It wasn’t like she didn’t remember what happened. But that felt like she was taking the easy way out too. And she knew that the payoff in eight would feel so much better if she made it through seven.

She was sprawled out on the couch in the living room, so when the doorbell rang, she was the closest person to the front door. By family decree, that meant she had to answer it. She groaned and pushed herself up off the couch, then trudged across the living room to the door.

When she opened it, she was greeted by a blast of heat. Even though it was early September, they were having one of those last-ditch temperature jumps, like summer was having one final hurrah before autumn got serious.

She didn’t know who she expected to be at the door. But it definitely wasn’t Tressa.

“Oh,” said Morgan, straightening up a little. “Hey.”

Tressa grinned. “Hey, new girl. Hot enough for you?”

“You want to come in?” asked Morgan.

“You want to come out?” countered Tressa.

“Huh?”

Tressa pointed across the street to where a large boat sat tied to the dock.

“Is that yours?” asked Morgan.

“Yup. You said you’ve never been wakeboarding, right? Well, today is a perfect day for it and my mom is taking us out. So are you in?”

“For real?” asked Morgan.

Tressa rolled her eyes. “No, we came all this way just to troll you. So can you come or what?”

“Uh … let me check.”

“And change into a swimsuit,” Tressa called as Morgan hurried back into the house.

Her father was in the kitchen, attempting to learn how to bake something. Morgan did not have high hopes for the outcome, since he had never baked anything in his life.

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