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''[[Anya's Ghost]]'' is a single-issue graphic novel by Vera Brosgol. It features Anya: an [[Ordinary High School Student|insecure, dowdy teenager,]] born of Russian immigrants, who finds herself struggling with the day-to-day trials of highschoolhigh school life, like her crush Sean and [[Deadpan Snarker|mouthy]] friend Siobhan. One day, she falls down an abandoned well and discovers the bones of a young girl who fell down there before her... As well as the ghost of said girl, still haunting the well she died in ninety years prior. [[Cute Ghost Girl|The ghost, Emily, turns out to be pretty friendly,]] and the two eventually become good friends, as well as partners in crime. (Anya uses her invisible buddy to [[Mundane Utility|cheat on tests, keep watch while she's smoking and spy on classmates.]]) Of course, these sort of things rarely end well, and soon Emily proves more of a problem than a friend.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: {{spoiler|[[Averted Trope|Averted]] and [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] with Elizabeth. If you are familiar with high school tropes you'll think she'll be one, however she doesn't have the trade marktrademark meanness of an alpha bitch. Case in point, when Anya falls in gym she doesn't laugh at her and asks her if she is alrightall right. It soon becomes obvious that Anya is the nasty one and [[Green-Eyed Monster|she and the other girls are jealous of Elizabeth]], for being pretty, athletic, intelligent, dating the hunky jock Sean, and being all around "prefect". However, when we get to the party we find out [[Your Cheating Heart|Sean likes to sleep around with other girls]] and Elizabeth knows about it. Not only does know she goes along with it. Why? [[Destructive Romance|She only feels good about herself if she and Sean are together and desperately wants to keep him in her life.]] All her positive traits mean very little to her and it only shows she probably has little to no self esteem. This also drives home the theme that everyone has problems.}}