Cemetery Girl

Sketching was always a special gift and talent for Janie. It was her release from the pressures of growing up and her escape from feeling like she didn?t fit in. One day, while sitting and creating illustrations in the cemetery across from her family?s house, "special" took on a whole new meaning for Janie when her drawing revealed a hidden message from beyond the grave. Soon Janie and her best friend Bobby Wu, wonder and doubt her special abilities, but after a successful test in the cemetery, Bobby comes up with a plan to take it to the next level. Janie and her friend seek an answer to the greatest secret ever carried to the grave. "Was he the lone gunman?"Can Janie really receive messages from beyond the grave, and if so, can the messages help Janie?s new friend, Keith? These questions and many more are answered in the Cemetery Girl, the first book of a planned trilogy by Joseph Cognard and his daughters. When the idea for Cemetery Girl first came to author Joseph Cognard, a native New Yorker, he thought of a perfect and familiar setting for his plot, the cemetery capital of the world: the New York City borough of Queens. Cemetery Girl is the father/daughters collaboration. The illustrations and coloring throughout the book are created by Cognard?s daughters Gabriella and Marisa, who are also his inspiration.