Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe

ISBN-10: 0823443663
ISBN-13: 9780823443666
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Pages: 176
Language: English
Published: 2019-09-03
Publisher: Holiday House
Author: Josh Allen

Description

Thirteen ordinary kids. Thirteen ordinary towns. Danger lurks around every corner! "Wonderful and weird, compelling and unsettling." - Gary Schmidt, two-time Newbery Honor author Get ready for a collection of thirteen short stories that will chill your bones, tingle your spine, and scare your pants off. Debut author Josh Allen masterfully concocts horror in the most innocent places, like R.L. Stine meets a modern Edgar Allan Poe. A stray kitten turns into a threatening follower. The street sign down the block starts taunting you. Even your own shadow is out to get you! Spooky things love hiding in plain sight. The everyday world is full of sinister secrets and these page-turning stories show that there's darkness even where you least expect it. Readers will sleep with one eye open. . . . A glow-in-the-dark cover and thirteen eerie full-page illustrations by award-winning artist Sarah J. Coleman accompany the tales in this frightful mashup that reads like a contemporary Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. A Junior Library Guild Selection An ILA-CBC Children's Choice!

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Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe
- 2019-09-03
- 176 pages
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