[nice tight copy, appears unread, no discernible wear but a couple of itsy-bitsy spots on fore-edge; jacket shows only faint surface wear]. Laurel, a Chinese-American girl, worries about leaving the protective spirit of her great-grandfather behind when her family moves out of their old house; Jonathan, the son of the Jewish family that moves in, has his own family issues. "Laurel takes every opportunity to go back to her old house -- to try to communicate with her guardian spirit -- while Jonathan tries to get his family to let Uncle Jake come and live with them. After a series of frightening episodes involving ghosts, exorcism, and a serious accident, Laurel and Jonathan discover that answers to their dilemmas lie within their own cultures."