Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost - by Matthew Dow Smith

Book Synopsis

Magic and mayhem collide in this fantastical new series! For fans of black cats and dark wizards!

Amelia Shadows has never had what you might call a "normal" childhood. For one thing, her dad's the most powerful dark magician in the world. And for another, she's spent her entire life in a house filled with ghosts and monsters and incredibly dangerous magical objects! As far as Amelia's concerned, her life's actually pretty cool.

When Amelia and her cat, Clara, aren't having adventures or dealing with dimensional portals in the pantry, she's learning to be a dark magician, just like her dad, with the help of a ghost tutor named Gustave. You'd think a ghost tutor named Gustave would be pretty fun, but he's actually pretty boring.

And if a boring ghost tutor wasn't bad enough, now Amelia's dad has hired another ghost to oversee things, Hans. Which wouldn't be that bad, except Hans has very strong opinions about how things should be around the house. This new head ghost has got to go, and Amelia may have a surprising ally...

Magic and mischief and a life lesson or two from Matthew Dow Smith, creator of DC's Misfits of Magic and Maverick's The October Girl.

About the Author

Matthew Dow Smith is a writer and comic book artist. He wrote and drew this book, for one thing. But he also wrote and drew DC's Misfits of Magic and a young adult series called The October Girl. And those books are pretty good, but this book is way better. And funnier. And has a cat in it. Books with cats in them are always better. He should probably do more books with cats in them. When he isn't making books, he's reading other people's books. And when he's not doing that, he's either deciding what book to read next or where to put all the books that he bought but hasn't read yet. He lives on the east coast of the United States.