Welcome to the Phantom Academy by Christine Virnig Book Tour hosted by Toppling Stacks Tours. 

About the Book

Lindsay Currie’s Scritch Scratch meets The School for Invisible Boys in this fun romp of a middle grade novel about a newly dead boy who faces a spooky new school hiding an unearthly mystery.

After an unlucky collision between a coconut and the top of his head, twelve-year-old Finn joins the ranks of the recently deceased…and of the students at Phantom Academy. The academy is a spectral boarding school for underage ghosts finding their footing in the afterlife, and Finn is the new kid at school.

He doesn’t understand why ghosts have to take tests and do homework. Or why making friends doesn’t get any easier even when all the students have a very big thing in common. As the new class of middle schoolers get to know each other, it becomes clear something is happening behind the scenes of their new academy.

Can Finn and his classmates figure out their afterlife and crack the mystery?

Review of Phantom Academy

This was a fun read with a great concept—ghosts at a magical academy? I’m in. Finn’s coconut-related death felt a bit abrupt to me, but I can see tweens finding it quirky. The mystery with shady teachers and missing paintings kept things fast-paced, though I wish there’d been more focus on Finn adjusting to ghost life. His character (and ghostly friendships) has so much depth waiting to be explored—hopefully in a sequel! My only real gripe? Way too much bathroom humor. Otherwise, a clever, entertaining start to what I hope becomes a series.

About the Author

Christine Virnig is a children’s author who combines her child development expertise as a former pediatric allergist with her experience working in a children’s library to craft stories that make kids laugh, scream, and feel seen. On the fiction side, Christine’s spooky middle grade novels include A Bite Above the Rest and Phantom Academy. Christine also writes gross-but-educational middle grade nonfiction, including Dung for Dinner and Waist-Deep in Dung. Her first picture book launches in 2027. Christine lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family, an exorbitant number of dust bunnies, and one incredibly lazy cat.

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Phantom Academy Book Tour

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