This sensitive and empowering middle grade graphic novel focuses on changes associated with adolescence. Set in modern-day Montreal, Adèle is enjoying her winter break when she discovers something new about herself: she can see and hear ghosts. Adèle first hears voices in the backseat of the car while her sister is driving her to the Mile End Library. Then she sees the same elderly man waiting outside her family's convenience store, the Blue Goose Dépanneur, several days in a row.
But it turns out there is even more happening to her body than her connection to ghosts - this is a gift that some of the women in her family develop at the first sign of puberty. At first Adele is shocked and unprepared for all of it. Adèle has the gift and isn't ready, her old sister doesn't have the gift and desperately wants it, her grandmother has the gift and wishes she didn't. Ready or not, her Gran throws her a welcoming "period party" that includes all the best cakes and sweets, gifts, advice, and stories from everyone in attendance. This helps Adèle adjust and breaks the taboo by de-stigmatizing and demystifying menstruation. As Adèle grapples with becoming a medium and growing older, her supportive family and community rally around her. She makes more and more connections and realizes that her gift might help others in her neighborhood and beyond.
Sophie Escabasse is also the author and illustrator of the Witches of Brooklyn graphic novel series featuring a young witch who is learning how to manage her emerging skills. There is a brief crossover moment in Taxi Ghost that fans of the series will appreciate.