Zee Puckett always said words were magic. She knows how the right story can silence a school bus. That one comment can get a crowd on the playground. And how just a word can make her best friend, Elijah, cover his ears. Because Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. There’s a creepy, new principal who seems to know everyone’s darkest dreams. And Zee is seeing frightening things: Large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost.. When she tells her classmates, no one believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up isn’t going away. As everyone’s most selfish wishes start coming true, Zee, Elijah, and Nellie will have to work together if they’re going to give their story a happy ending.