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Publisher	Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13	9780593426647
ISBN 10	0593426649
Author	Katie Zhao
Book Format	Paperback

Language	English
About the Author	Katie Zhao is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she earned a BA in English and political science in 2017 and a master of accounting degree in 2018. She is the author of the Dragon Warrior series, How We Fall Apart, Last Gamer Standing, and the Winnie Zeng series. She's a passionate advocate for diverse representation in literature and media. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter OneMy name is Winnie Zeng, and if there’s one piece of advice you should take from me, it’s to never go to middle school, ever. Avoid it for as long as you can. Run away from home if you need to. Also, if you ever receive a pamphlet from something called the Shaman Task Force, sprint as fast as you can in the opposite direction, before a bunch of spirits start attacking your town and you’re roped into never-ending patrol duty.Okay, that was a lot. Let’s back up a little.See, up until the day I entered sixth grade, my daily life was pretty normal and boring. Going to school every day. Watching (and rewatching, and rewatching . . .) Sailor Moon. Bugging my fourteen-year-old sister, Lisa. Practicing the piano (or, rather, concocting schemes to trick my family into thinking I was practicing piano). Doing my best to one-up my archnemesis, a kid named David Zuo. You know, real average stuff. And it was great.Then I got to sixth grade, and everything changed. Most kids hit puberty when they get to middle school, which is one of the many reasons why middle school drools. But instead of getting a growth spurt, I developed shaman powers.Yeah, you read that right. Shaman powers.Basically, that means I developed the ability to see spirits that have crossed over from the spirit realm into the human world. Apparently, these powers have been passed down in my family for generations. Some families pass down valuable heirlooms, or property, or wealth, but in the Zeng family, we get unwanted powers instead. Yay.Not only that, but because I had these shaman powers, I got roped into joining the Shaman Task Force. Being a task-force member means serving as a peacekeeper between the shaman and human worlds. It’s a big responsibility to handle on top of my already-important middle school tasks. Hey, if I’m not going to annoy the heck out of my older sister, then who will?Because it’s so important that no evil spirits cause chaos in the human world, I can’t mess up.“Winnie, you messed up.”“Wh-what?” Startled, I stopped in the middle of what I was currently doing―beating eggs together to mix into flour.The silvery, ghostly figure of my grandmother’s spirit hovered over my shoulder, frowning down at the cookbook on the kitchen counter, which was open to the recipe for sugar cookies. It was one of the easiest types of cookies to make, and after an extremely hectic few weeks, all I wanted was to make something very simple. And nonmagical.“You added only half the amount of flour you were supposed to,” chided Lao Lao. My grandmother was a shaman before me, but she died before I was born, so I never got to know her when she was alive. Up until several weeks ago, I didn’t have an inkling that I would ever get to meet Lao Lao in any form.Then I discovered my grandmother’s magical cookbook and unleashed her spirit. After a whole lot of confusion, she became an overspirit―my overspirit. Shamans are pretty much useless without our overspirits to guide us. Well, not completely useless, but we are much more powerful when we have our overspirits by our sides. The catch is that Lao Lao is anchored to my pet rabbit, Jade, which means I have to haul around a rabbit everywhere if I want my overspirit’s guidance. That made for one very hectic afternoon at Chinese school, in which the principal lost her head over me bringing a “rat” to class (long story).With Lao Lao’s aid, I’m able to use magic to protect the human world from spirits, or so it’s supposed to go.
Publication Date	2023-04-25
Number of Pages	288 pages

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