Vintage by Steve Berman

Holly Black, author of Tithe and the New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles
"A witty, shuddersome, and extraordinary book that haunts as it charms."

This is a creepy book. From its goth main character to the creepier ghost who haunts him, Berman has created a terrifically complicated book with characters who are almost living they are so complex and so simple.

A lonely gay teen, kicked out by his parents and afraid to tell his aunt why lest she reject him too, finds himself alone on a deserted stretch of road, well, not totally alone. He finds himself in the company of a teenager in vintage fifties garb and is attracted to this stranger. But he soon realizes that all is not well, because this good-looking stranger is actually the legendary ghost of a high school jock killed in the fifties. When the ghost follows him home, the teen and his friends find themselves under siege by spirits. When he falls for Second Mike, who was named after First Mike (his own brother), the teen realizes that he has to get the ghost to leave him alone.

This is a good book to read if you like realistic problems, because it is messy, but manages to instill a little hope in a situation that isn't always the easiest (i.e. coming out to a loved one). While the medium aspect is a little beyond the norm, the book is good.

Read the amazon.com blurb and book description. The author has arranged that 1/5 of the royalties from Vintage will be donated to charities helping gay teens:10% will be donated to the GSA Network, which assists Gay-Straight Student Alliances in high schools; another 10% donated to the Trevor Project, which works to prevent suicide among gay youth.