The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand (2017)
A girl who refused to change now works as the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Not every Scrooge listens. What happens to the ones who don’t?
You read young adult fiction and you want a funny, romantic version told by a ghost.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the three-spirit visit, run each year by a secret company called Project Scrooge.
Changes: nearly everything: Holly, a Hollywood director’s daughter, ignored her own ghosts and died, and now plays Christmas Past for this year’s Scrooge, a boy of seventeen.
Whose story is it?
Holly’s.
How much time does it ask?
416 pages in HarperCollins paperback (2018); first published in hardcover by HarperTeen in 2017.
Publishers Weekly: Holly is in her fifth year as the Ghost of Christmas Past for Project Scrooge. Ages 13 and up.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Christmas Carols: The Penguin Classics edition, ed. Michael Slater (2003) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition, ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (2008) · The Annotated Christmas Carol, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn (2004)