Bibliograph

Shutter, Courtney Alameda

Type

Label

Shutter, Courtney Alameda

Language

eng

resource.accompanyingMatter

libretto or text

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Intended audience

6, ATOS Level

resource.interestGradeLevel

UG/Upper grades (9th-12)

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Shutter

Medium

sound recording audiobook download

resource.readingGradeLevel

Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5

Responsibility statement

Courtney Alameda

Summary

Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. With an analog SLR camera as her best weapon, Micheline exorcises ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy on film. She's aided by her crew: Oliver, a techno-whiz and the boy who developed her camera's technology; Jude, who can predict death; and Ryder, the boy Micheline has known and loved forever. When a routine ghost hunt goes awry, Micheline and the boys are infected with a curse known as a soulchain. As the ghostly chains spread through their bodies, Micheline learns that if she doesn't exorcise her entity in seven days or less, she and her friends will die. Now pursued as a renegade agent by her monster-hunting father, Leonard Helsing, she must track and destroy an entity more powerful than anything she's faced before... or die trying

Target audience

adolescent

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