Whiting, Sue

Using a variety of household items to make a monster.

Combines lively narrative text and engaging illustrations in a picture book introduction to the platypus that explains how it defies categorization as an egg-laying mammal with the characteristics of several types of animals.

After her father's death sixteen-year-old Bayley and her family move out to the lake, to the house from which sixteen-year-old Celina O'Malley mysteriously disappeared nearly forty years before--but when she finds a trunk of Celina's clothes, her cousin's spirit starts reaching out to Bayley, and it seems that she wants her murder solved, even if her revenge costs Bayley her life.