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- Nutty Bookworm
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
Book Info:
Phantom Academy by Christine Virnig
Genre: Middle Grade Paranormal
Publishing Date: August 26, 2025
Synopsis:
Lindsay Currie’s Scritch Scratch meets The School for Invisible Boys in this fun romp of a middle grade novel about a newly dead boy who faces a spooky new school hiding an unearthly mystery.
After an unlucky collision between a coconut and the top of his head, twelve-year-old Finn joins the ranks of the recently deceased…and of the students at Phantom Academy. The academy is a spectral boarding school for underage ghosts finding their footing in the afterlife, and Finn is the new kid at school.
He doesn’t understand why ghosts have to take tests and do homework. Or why making friends doesn’t get any easier even when all the students have a very big thing in common. As the new class of middle schoolers get to know each other, it becomes clear something is happening behind the scenes of their new academy.
Can Finn and his classmates figure out their afterlife and crack the mystery?
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About the Author:
Christine Virnig is a children’s author who combines her child development expertise as a former pediatric allergist with her experience working in a children’s library to craft stories that make kids laugh, scream, and feel seen. On the fiction side, Christine’s spooky middle grade novels include A Bite Above the Rest and Phantom Academy. Christine also writes gross-but-educational middle grade nonfiction, including Dung for Dinner and Waist-Deep in Dung. Her first picture book launches in 2027. Christine lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family, an exorbitant number of dust bunnies, and one incredibly lazy cat.
Author Links:
Website: https://christinevirnig.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/virnigchristine/
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For me this was more of a Mystery rather than a Spooky Story and this was done so so well kudos to Christine. I liked the School setting and how it was run even the rules were interesting. I would of liked to know more about the main character Finn Jones as this really would of pulled the readers in .
For all the above reasons Phantom Academy 3 Stars but can see if a newbie wanted a slightly spooky story with a splash of Mystery this would be a perfect fit
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