The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong is the first book in the Darkest Powers series. Chloe, a fifteen year old girl who lives alone with her work-a-holic father and housekeeper after her mother died in a hit and run, sees dead people. She winds up in a group home for people suffering from mental illness after being chased by a burned custodian at school. While at the Lyle House, Chloe meets other teens with special powers, and learns to accept the fact that she's a necromancer, or a person who can summon and speak with the dead. She and her friends plan an escape, hoping to find other supernatural people, but everything goes wrong.

I loved this book! The whole "Sixth Sense" idea is so intriguing to me. It was interesting to read about it from a teenage girl's perspective. This book ends with a real cliff-hanger, so I know I'll be reading The Awakening when it comes out in May of 2009.