Book Review: The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh

Jack Perdu is a ninth grader in New Haven, where they live because his dad works at Yale. He's really smart and he doesn't have any friends. He's always reading, and one time, he was walking down the street reading, and got hit by a car and almost dies. His dad sends him to a really weird doctor in New York. While he's at Grand Terminal Station, he meets a girl named Euri who insists on showing him underneath the station where no one knows about. He agrees and finds himself in an underworld full of ghosts who haven't moved on yet. Jack's mom died eight years ago, and he starts to look for her, but he only has three days or else he'll actually die. Jack also learns the real reason Euri died.

"Ta-dum, track sixty-one!" said Euri, gesturing toward a padlocked door.

But Jack wasn't looking at the door. "Where does that go?" he asked, pointing to the staircase.

"Oh, that leads to the other levels of the station," Euri said. "Want to see?"

Jack took a few steps toward the staircase and looked down. "But the guide said there were only two levels."

"That was the official tour. I'm giving you the unofficial tour. There are nine."

Jack suddenly remembered the dream he'd had at the hospital, how the nurse had mentioned a ninth floor under New York. "Nine?" He looked at Euri, but she crossed her arms over her chest and stared straight back at him.

"Come on," she said. "I'll show you." With a smirk, she added, "It's a different world down there."