The Ballad of Melodie Rose

Kate Gordon

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702264986
• Year: 2021

A heartfelt story of one girl's determination to save her beloved home and the lyrical companion tale to The Heartsong of Wonder Quinn. When Melodie Rose is abandoned on the doorstep of Direleafe Hall, she realises she must be a ghost. Strangely, she is not sad. With the three other ghostly girls who haunt the school and a gloomy crow on her shoulder, Melodie has never felt more at peace. Finally, she has a place to call home. So when the Lady in White arrives with plans to flatten the beloved school, Melodie Rose must act fast to save all she holds dear. But what can one powerless ghost do? The Ballad of Melodie Rose is a life-affirming tale of belonging, being brave and being seen.

Table of contents

• This book belongs to
• Dedication
• Title page
• Chapter 1: Memories and forgotten things
• Chapter 2: Melodie is a ghost
• Chapter 3: The other girls
• Chapter 4: Florence, Lucy and Nell
• Chapter 5: Discoveries
• Chapter 6: Hollowbeak
• Chapter 7: Hollowbeak and Melodie Rose
• Chapter 8: The Lady in White
• Chapter 9: Conkers
• Chapter 10: Lists
• Chapter 11: Past midnight
• Chapter 12: Ms Gallow’s office
• Chapter 13: Waiting for Hollowbeak
• Chapter 14: The second one, I suppose
• Chapter 15: Humanity
• Chapter 16: A letter to Ines
• Chapter 17: Ines Amontillado
• Chapter 18: Ines tries
• Chapter 19: Blackmail
• Chapter 20: Waiting for Ms Gallow
• Chapter 21: Questions
• Chapter 22: What Hollowbeak saw
• Chapter 23: Fixing things
• Chapter 24: Melodie is seen and heard
• Chapter 25: What happened after
• Chapter 26: The truth about the Lady in White
• Chapter 27: Remembering
• Chapter 28: Telling the truth about all of it
• Chapter 29: Preparations
• Chapter 30: Hollowbeak’s sadness
• Chapter 31: The ballad of Melodie Rose
• Chapter 32: Lucy’s cry
• Chapter 33: And then …
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Author biography
• Imprint page