

Cruel and Unusual Death: most of the ghosts suffered ridiculous deaths:.Chalk Outline: Stated in "A Wake." It was her "last, and well as lasting, impression on the Hawthorne student body.".Celestial Bureaucracy: right after Charlotte dies, she has to fill in a form.Annoying Younger Sibling: Scarlet annoys Petula to no end, but that's just their conflicting personalities acting up.Subverted in ghostgirl: Lovesick where she is much kinder than before. Alliterative Name: About half the Dead Ed kids in ghostgirl.All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Petula's endless number of admirers (as revealed in ghostgirl: Lovesick) basically defines this trope.But, Charlotte's classmates noticing what she's doing and it begins to take its toll on the class. While using the 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 he falls in love with her. That is, until she finds out her idol's sister Scarlet is the only living person who can see her.

But, she's used to the feeling of rejection. She later finds out that no one is able to see her.

After dying, she is required to attend an alternative high school for dead kids called Dead Ed. While trying to be Damen's lab partner in Physics class, Charlotte accidentally chokes on a gummy bear and dies. Trying to get noticed by her peers, especially by her crush Damen Dylan, Charlotte starts this year off on the other foot.

The series is about an ignored girl named Charlotte Usher who's starting her final year at Hawthorne High. It was followed by two sequels, ghostgirl: Homecoming and ghostgirl: Lovesick. The first book in the series, simply titled ghostgirl, was published in 2008. Ghostgirl is a book series written by Tonya Hurley.
