Against the ominous backdrop of the influenza epidemic of 1918, Annie, a new girl at school, is claimed as best friend by Elsie, a classmate who is a tattletale, a liar, and a thief. Soon Annie makes other friends and finds herself joining them in teasing and tormenting Elsie. Elsie dies from influenza, but then she returns to reclaim Annie’s friendship and punish all the girls who bullied her.

Elsie wasn’t a scary ghost. She wasn’t an all that sympathetic one either. All she really did was annoy me as a reader so much that I sped through this book because I didn’t want to interact with her anymore. I made One for Sorrow just an okay read because there really weren’t any sympathetic characters in here. They were all just mean little girls, I’m not into reading books about mean children.