On Halloween night, three friends enter a haunted cemetery to uncover a story spooky enough to bag them editorial positions at the school newspaper.
Unfortunately, the ghosts have plans of their own.
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This month, I explore the merits of libraries for indie authors, and review a MG time travel novel that features the first swim across the English channel… by a kid.
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This month, we meet the world’s first time traveller, who drops intriguing clues about the future that make us want to steal the code book he carries. We also plumb the terrifying depths of an old country house used as a recording studio by an alt rock band, and ride across the American southwest with a posse of queer outlaw librarians.
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This month, we time travel to ancient Rome, guided by Leonardo Da Vinci’s cat, and we are schooled on the inner workings of male entitlement/ toxic masculinity when a teenage boy gets checked by the women—and men—in his life.
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