 | Dead things are closer than they appear Author: Wasley, Robin | |
| Price: $11.47 | ||
Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Sid lives in a tourist town where magic lies buried beneath the earth, but other than that, has a completely ordinary existence, until one day her brother goes missing and the ground opens up, unleashing the magic and zombies within.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: UG Reading Level: 5.00 Points: 17.0 Quiz: 553101 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (12/15/23)
Booklist (01/17/24)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/01/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 01/17/2024 Ghosts of the long-closed magical fault lines are everywhere in the town of Llewellyn, called Wellsie; Sid just wishes they weren’t so figurative. Wherever she looks, she sees the ghosts of past relationships, like the best friend who took Sid’s crush, and the ghosts of the Korean family she never knew, having been adopted by the very white and perfect Spencers. Brian may have it worse, though: his father died recently, and he’s become the kid everyone avoids because it’s awkward. When the fault line reopens and starts spitting out actual zombies, Sid, a horror-movie fanatic, is panicked, but after several days of no human connection, she decides to venture out. Then Brian breaks into her house, looking for her also-adopted brother, Matty, who is apparently a legendary magical guardian. Sid grapples with dangerous magic, family secrets, and earth-shattering disaster. Wasley writes that this is her twentieth book written, but her first that's been published, and it's a solid debut. Sid, although scared, is engagingly clever while she picks her way through the strange emergency she's in. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
