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10	->''Now I lay me down to sleep;''\
11	''I pray the Lord my soul to keep.''\
12	''And if I should die before I awake,''\
13	''I pray the popular attend my wake.''
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15	''ghostgirl'' [[note]](that is the correct capitalization)[[/note]] is a book series written by Tonya Hurley. The first book in the series, simply titled ''ghostgirl'', was published in 2008. It was followed by two sequels, ''ghostgirl: Homecoming'' and ''ghostgirl: Lovesick''.
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17	The series is about an ignored girl named Charlotte Usher who's starting her final year at Hawthorne High. Trying to get noticed by her peers, especially by her crush [[ChickMagnet Damen Dylan]], Charlotte starts this year off on the other foot. While trying to be Damen's lab partner in Physics class, Charlotte accidentally chokes on a gummy bear and dies. After dying, she is required to attend an alternative high school for dead kids called Dead Ed. She later finds out that no one is able to see her except her idol's sister, Scarlet. While using the [[DemonicPossession Possession incantation]] she learned, Charlotte begins to use Scarlet as a way to communicate with Damen, but Damen thinks he's talking to Scarlet and falls in love with her.
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20	!!These books provide examples of:
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22	%%* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Petula's endless number of admirers (as revealed in ''ghostgirl: Lovesick'') basically defines this trope.
23	%%* AlliterativeName: About half the Dead Ed kids in ''ghostgirl.''
24	%%* AlphaBitch: Petula. [[spoiler:Subverted in ''ghostgirl: Lovesick'' where she is much kinder than before.]]
25	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Scarlet annoys Petula to no end, but that's just their conflicting personalities acting up.
26	%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Petula shows some hints of this towards a girl she meets in her out-of-body experience.
27	* CelestialBureaucracy: right after Charlotte dies, she has to fill in a form.
28	%%* ChalkOutline: Stated in "A Wake." It was her "last, and well as lasting, impression on the Hawthorne student body."
29	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Most of the ghosts suffered ridiculous deaths.
30	** Charlotte choked on a gummy bear.
31	** [=CoCo=] drowned in her own vomit.
32	** Maddy [[spoiler:tried to kill her friend with a botox overdose but [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed herself]]]].
33	** Piccolo Pam swallowed her flute.
34	** Toxic Shock Sally died because [[NoPeriodsPeriod she forgot to change her tampon]].
35	%%* DarkIsNotEvil: Scarlet is actually pretty nice though she dresses in black.
36	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Scarlet.
37	%%* DeadToBeginWith.
38	%%* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Charlotte's parents are dead.
39	* DefrostingIceQueen: Prue is initially very hostile to Charlotte, but ends up warming up to her.
40	%%* DudeShesLikeInAComa: In ''ghostgirl: Homecoming'' Scarlet and Petula both get put into comas, and Damen kisses Scarlet while she's in her coma.
41	%%* DyingAlone: Charlotte dies alone. In her Physics classroom.
42	* EatingLunchAlone: Charlotte feels uncomfortable during her first lunch with the Dead Ed kids because she never knows where to sit. She is very happy when Pam invites her to sit with her.
43	* FreakyFridayFlip: Scarlet agrees to switch bodies with Charlotte using a special incantation -- the results are that Scarlet becomes a ghost and Charlotte takes possession of Scarlet's body.
44	-->'''Charlotte:''' You and me, our soul makes three...me and you, our soul makes two...we are me inside of YOU.
45	* GenderBlenderName: Charlotte's full name is Charles Usher.
46	%%* GirlPosse: Petula and her BFF's The Wendys.
47	* GoIntoTheLight: subverted, Charlotte sees a very bright light that is actually coming from the classroom.
48	%%* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Petula and Scarlet.
49	* {{Goth}}: Scarlet and Prue (to some extent). [[spoiler: Though, in ''ghostgirl: Lovesick'', Scarlet goes through a makeover and is barely Goth anymore]].
50	* HeHadAName: After Charlotte dies, nobody knows. Everybody just goes about their daily lives. That is, until [[spoiler:she became visible at the Fall Ball]]. Then, everyone knows her.
51	* HiddenDepths: Damen plays the guitar and likes Death Cab 4 Cutie and indie horror films.
52	%%* IAmTheNoun: "You can't ban me from the dance! I AM THE DANCE!"
53	%%* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Charlotte, so freaking much.
54	* ISeeDeadPeople: Scarlet is, for some reason, able to see the Dead Ed students. It's never explained why.
55	* JacobMarleyApparel: Everybody keeps their corpse's appearance in the afterlife, and it's the source of all the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal nicknames]], such as "Piccolo" Pam and "Metal" Mike.
56	%%* LovableAlphaBitch: Petula in ''ghostgirl: Homecoming''
57	%%* ManipulativeBastard: Maddy in ''ghostgirl: Homecoming''
58	* MatterOfLifeAndDeath: The slogan of the series is "Sometimes, HighSchool really is a matter of life and death."
59	* MundaneAfterlife: Apart from their newly gained powers, the Afterlife is basically the same as our world.
60	%%* NiceGuy: Damen.
61	* OfCourseImNotAVirgin: Petula actually insults Scarlet for being a virgin. It's also hinted that Damen and Petula have had sex before; his car was reportedly parked out in front of her house "all night" sometimes.
62	%%* OurGhostsAreDifferent
63	%%* PetTheDog: Petula gets her moment in ''ghostgirl: Homecoming''.
64	%%* ProphetEyes: Charlotte.
65	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Subverted in ''ghostgirl: Homecoming''. [[spoiler:When Petula hears that the little girl she's been talking to all day is going to die, she offers to take her place. Charlotte is moved by the gesture, but tells her that it's not her time to die.]]
66	* SoulPower: After dying, Charlotte gains the power to possess people, phase through objects, [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshift]], {{teleport\|ation}}, and move things [[MindOverMatter telekinetically]].
67	* ShoutOut:
68	** In ''ghostgirl,'' the Wendys suggest dumping a bucket of blood on Scarlet at the Fall Ball. Petula tells them [[{{Literature/Carrie}} it's already been done.]]
69	** Hawthorne High is a ShoutOut to Creator/NathanielHawthorne.
70	%%* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Charlotte's hair was so unruly, "she'd only been able to tame with [it] with an entire drugstore shelf of conditioners, detanglers, and spray-holds."
71	%%* TookALevelInKindness: Petula in ''ghostgirl: Homecoming'', and even moreso in ''ghostgirl: Lovesick''.
72	* UndignifiedDeath: Charlotte dies by ''choking on a gummy bear''.
73	* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Charlotte died at age 17, yet she talks like a prophet.
74	* WithFriendsLikeThese: The two Wendys don't care one bit about Petula being hospitalized and even [[KickTheDog make fun of her]], joking that she might be pregnant and taking photos. They're not better in ''Lovesick'', ditching her for Darcy.

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