 | I.R.L Author: Goebel, Jenny | |
| Price: $11.24 | ||
Summary:
Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over. However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote learning from October to April, when the roads become too icy to navigate safely. As the ice starts to thaw, Lucy grows increasingly excited about meeting her new friends in person! But when she enters the school's address on her phone's GPS, it leads her to a crumbling, clearly abandoned building.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 5.30 Points: 6.0 Quiz: 553635 |
Reviews:
Booklist (02/01/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 02/01/2025 After being bullied at her old school in San Francisco, sixth-grader Lucy Bell-Rodriguez looks forward to a fresh start when she and her parents relocate to White Pine, Alaska, for her mom’s new job. After a few weeks of virtual learning, Lucy expects her first in-person day to go smoothly. But when she gets to school, she finds a dilapidated building and 12 headstones engraved with her classmates’ names. Things get stranger when technology around her starts to act up and she meets a boy in the forest who is hiding secrets. Lucy must get to the bottom of things like how those children died, what it has to do with the classmates she’s never physically met, and how it all ties into her mom’s research facility. Goebel has found her genre in paranormal stories. With a background in education, Goebel makes sure to focus on elements that resonate with middle-graders, such as bullying, online learning, and (hopefully to a lesser extent) ghosts. Readers will get an enjoyable fright from this story! - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
