Review of The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead

This book is a not so modern coming-of-age story.  Thirteen year old twins are bored and want a new game.  They are smart and want to involve others in their game.   The girl discovers that she can make a knocking noise with her ankles without even having to move them.  The boy then decides that they will pretend to channel ghosts using the knocking to answer simple yes and no questions.  The boy then picks and chooses who they will share the spirit knocking with.  At first, it is a boy and then a group of girls and then grandmothers.  The girl twin then starts to realize more about her family and the people within it.  She wants to use the spirit knocking to help people while her brother wants to use it for fame.  They discover who they are and what they should be doing in the middle of this summer as things start to unfold and determine the rest of their lives.