Awards
- Nominated for Utah Beehive Book Award 2024
- Short-listed for Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
- Short-listed for Aurora Award - Best YA Novel 2023
Overview
One teen's summer job scaring tourists with ghost stories takes a terrifying turn when he accidentally summons the spirit of a dead girl—and she has demands. . . . The award-winning author of Airborn delivers a roller-coaster ride of a story about the wakeful and wicked dead. Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell—or were they pushed?—remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn’t actually believe in ghosts—until he finds himself face to face with Rebecca Strand. The true story of her death is far more terrifying than any ghost tale Gabe has told. Rebecca reveals that her father was a member of the Order, a secret society devoted to protecting the world from “the wakeful and wicked dead”—malevolent spirits like Viker, the ghost responsible for their deaths. But the Order has disappeared, and Viker’s ghost is growing ever stronger. Now Gabe and his friends must find a way to stop Viker before they all become lost souls. . . .
Full Product Details
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Yearling (imprint of Random House Children's Books)
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 19.40cm
Weight: 0.278kg
ISBN: 9780593487969
ISBN 10: 0593487966
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Recommended Age: From 10 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
High-stakes, harrowing, and chilling as midnight ocean spray. [A] genuinely ghoulish treat. -The New York Times Ghostbusters meets Stranger Things in Oppel's perceptive supernatural thriller. -Publishers Weekly Oppel's latest begs to be made into a movie: visually cinematic with witty humor, nonstop action, a dash of romance, and plenty of heart. A thrill ride packed with harrowing escapes, puzzling mysteries, and memorable characters. -School Library Journal, starred review Friendship with ghosts can be chilling. A spooktacular story that's surprisingly insightful. -Kirkus Reviews Action and horror elements propel the fast-paced narrative. -Booklist Viker is a monstrously novel villain. -The Bulletin
Author Information
KENNETH OPPEL is one of the most highly regarded authors of middle-grade fiction writing today. Some of his best-known titles are Inkling, The Nest, Airborn, a 2005 Printz Honor Book, and Silverwing.
