Alphas and Auras, a Sonny and Breanne Mystery, Book #5 — James C. Paavola

Eighth graders Sonny and Breanne look nothing alike—a short black boy, a tall white girl. Their special friendship developed after they discovered they both had psychic powers: they can read minds, and ghosts talk to them. Their ghost friends help them deal with bullies and solve mysteries. In Book 5 of the series, there are new threats from bullies and more requests for Breanne's grandfather to help him with unsolved police cases. Two one-hundred-year old ghosts help fend off the bullies. Sonny's grandmother gives him an ancient amulet that belonged to his great-great-grandmother who was a Hoodoo priestess. The amulet appears to give Sonny the beginnings of new skills to see auras and to be an animal-whisperer. At the same time, Breanne is developing her early skills to sense the presence of the hostile characteristics of bullies, especially bullied intent on hurting her.