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* GooglingTheNewAcquaintance: After Roland meets Jessica, he googles her name to find out how she died.
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* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: {{Justified}}. Jessica can instantly change her clothes at will because she's a ghost.
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* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: {{Justified}}.{{Justified|Trope}}. Jessica can instantly change her clothes at will because she's a ghost.
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-> For all the Jessicas\\
and the people who loved them.
and the people who loved them.
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-> For ''For all the Jessicas\\
and the people who loved them.''
and the people who loved them.''
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-> For all the Jessicas\\
and the people who loved them.
-->-- The original edition's dedication
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* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: {{Justified}}. Jessica can instantly change her clothes at will because she's a ghost.
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* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Jessica wonders why Francis is the only person who can see her. [[spoiler:Turns out Andi and Roland can, too, and the latter figures out why: Jessica's final purpose is to stop other teenagers from committing suicide like she did.]]
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* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Jessica wonders why Francis is the only person who can see her. [[spoiler:Turns out Andi and Roland can, too, and the latter figures out why: all three of them have been suicidal, and Jessica's final purpose is to stop other teenagers from committing suicide like she did.]]
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* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Jessica wonders why Francis is the only person who can see her. [[spoiler:Turns out Andi and Roland can, too, and the latter figures out why: Jessica's final purpose is to stop other teenagers from committing suicide like she did.]]
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Francis is an introverted boy who's interested in fashion, while Andi is a muscular girl with a TomboyishName who used to think she ''was'' a boy, according to her mother.
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* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Francis is an introverted boy who's interested in fashion, while Andi is a muscular an athletic girl with a TomboyishName who used to think she ''was'' a boy, according to her mother.
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* GhostAmnesia: Jessica can't remember how she died at first, and whenever she tries to remember at first, she teleports back to the hospital where her body was taken. [[spoiler:After she learns she committed suicide, her memories flood back.]]
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* GhostAmnesia: Downplayed. Jessica can't remember how she died at first, and whenever she tries to remember at first, remember, she teleports back to the hospital where her body was taken. [[spoiler:After she learns she committed suicide, her memories flood back.]]
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* MundaneSolution: Roland finds out how Jessica died by searching her name on Google.
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* MundaneSolution: Roland (who's into the supernatural) finds out how Jessica died by searching her name on Google.
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''Jessica's Ghost'' (known as ''Friends for Life'' in the United States) is a children's novel by Creator/AndrewNorriss.
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''Jessica's Ghost'' (known as ''Friends for Life'' in the United States) is a children's novel by Creator/AndrewNorriss.
Creator/AndrewNorriss, released in 2015.
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* MagicRealism: This is a mostly mundane slice-of-life story where one of the main characters is a ghost.
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* MagicRealism: This is a mostly mundane slice-of-life story where one of the main characters is a ghost. It's left ambiguous if other ghosts exist in this world.
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''Jessica's Ghost'' (known as ''Friends for Life'' in the United States) is a children's novel by Creator/AndrewMorris.
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''Jessica's Ghost'' (known as ''Friends for Life'' in the United States) is a children's novel by Creator/AndrewMorris.
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''Jessica's Ghost'' (known as ''Friends for Life'' in the United States) is a children's novel by Creator/AndrewMorris.
Francis is sitting alone on a bench one school day, when a girl he's never met before named Jessica walks up to him. It turns out she's a ghost, and Francis is the first person she's met who can see her. The two quickly become friends, which leads to Francis' life becoming a whole lot brighter...
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!! ''Jessica's Ghost'' contains examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jessica ascends to the afterlife, but she changed Francis, Andi, and Roland's lives for the better, and the three are still close friends.]]
* DisappearedDad: It's mentioned that Francis' father died in a paragliding accident, but it's never explained what happened to Andi's or Roland's fathers.
* GhostAmnesia: Jessica can't remember how she died at first, and whenever she tries to remember at first, she teleports back to the hospital where her body was taken. [[spoiler:After she learns she committed suicide, her memories flood back.]]
* MagicRealism: This is a mostly mundane slice-of-life story where one of the main characters is a ghost.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Francis is an introverted boy who's interested in fashion, while Andi is a muscular girl with a TomboyishName who used to think she ''was'' a boy, according to her mother.
* MundaneSolution: Roland finds out how Jessica died by searching her name on Google.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The book is named after Jessica, but the story follows Francis the most as he learns to open up to people and make friends.
* SuicideByPills: [[spoiler:It turns out that Jessica committed suicide by running into the woods and overdosing on unspecified pills.]]
* TomboyishName: Due to her name, Francis assumes that Andi is a boy before he meets her.
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''Jessica's Ghost'' (known as ''Friends for Life'' in the United States) is a children's novel by Creator/AndrewMorris.
Francis is sitting alone on a bench one school day, when a girl he's never met before named Jessica walks up to him. It turns out she's a ghost, and Francis is the first person she's met who can see her. The two quickly become friends, which leads to Francis' life becoming a whole lot brighter...
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!! ''Jessica's Ghost'' contains examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jessica ascends to the afterlife, but she changed Francis, Andi, and Roland's lives for the better, and the three are still close friends.]]
* DisappearedDad: It's mentioned that Francis' father died in a paragliding accident, but it's never explained what happened to Andi's or Roland's fathers.
* GhostAmnesia: Jessica can't remember how she died at first, and whenever she tries to remember at first, she teleports back to the hospital where her body was taken. [[spoiler:After she learns she committed suicide, her memories flood back.]]
* MagicRealism: This is a mostly mundane slice-of-life story where one of the main characters is a ghost.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Francis is an introverted boy who's interested in fashion, while Andi is a muscular girl with a TomboyishName who used to think she ''was'' a boy, according to her mother.
* MundaneSolution: Roland finds out how Jessica died by searching her name on Google.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The book is named after Jessica, but the story follows Francis the most as he learns to open up to people and make friends.
* SuicideByPills: [[spoiler:It turns out that Jessica committed suicide by running into the woods and overdosing on unspecified pills.]]
* TomboyishName: Due to her name, Francis assumes that Andi is a boy before he meets her.
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