About This Book

He wasn't sure if it was a ghost or the real thing. But there sat Parsimonious, licking his paws on the stoop of a neighbor's house as if he'd never gone missing. As if all the family's cats were alive and well, and paired off with one of the Hall kids. As if his siblings were still his best friends, inseparable. As if nothing had changed.

But everything has changed. Boston was supposed to mean permanence for the Halls, the final stop for a family that had moved every year to countries all over the globe. And permanence is supposed to mean comfort, stability. So why does it feel as if suddenly everything Peter has loved is spinning away from him? His sisters find other friends; his brother develops a learning disability. His mom goes back to school. Peter is the only one who seems to have time on his hands. Too much of it.

For the first time in his life, change is the enemy. And it has him surrounded. Then the ghost cats arrive...