Lora Xi is a 12 year old with a vivid imagination, full of spirits, fairies and ghosts. But as she enters junior high, her friends all seem to be moving on from imaginative play. Feeling abandoned, Lora holds a séance tea party and meets a real ghost: Alexa Hudson, who died in the 1970s. Lora is delighted to have a new friend who won't grow up and leave her. But Lora isn't fixed in time herself: as she ages, Alexa fades. This a very beautiful and whimsical young adult story, though I didn't find the passage of time a hundred percent believable, I still enjoyed it.