No crime, no poverty, no graffiti on its streets, and though the mining and timber industries are long forgotten, money simply appears in the town coffers. Eden Eld is perfect-perhaps a little too perfect. Just before her 13th birthday, Eleanor is rescued from her burning home and sent to live with her relatives in the idyllic town of Eden Eld.
Gr 3-7-An enthralling mystery beats at the heart of this middle grade fantasy. And Eleanor, Pip, and Otto are marked as his next sacrifice. It's up to our trio to break the curse-because Eden Eld's thirteen years are up. Every thirteenth Halloween, he will take three of their children, who are never heard from again. January, who struck a cursed deal with the town's founders. The only other clue they have about these supernatural disturbances is a book of fairytales unlike any they've read before. Second: Don't speak of the wrong things to anyone else. Except for her new friends, Pip and Otto, who teach her a thing or two about surviving in Eden Eld.įirst: Don't let the wrong things know you can see them. All she wants is to be normal, and these are far from normal. And a black dog with glowing red eyes follows her around town. But then she spots a large bird, staring at her as she boards the school bus. When she awakes to discover an ancient grandfather clock that she's never seen before outside her new room, she's sure her eyes must be playing tricks on her. Every thirteen years in the town of Eden Eld, three thirteen-year-olds disappear.Įleanor has just moved to the quiet, prosperous Eden Eld. Neil Gaiman's Coraline meets Stranger Things in a dark and twisted story about a sleepy town with a dark secret-and the three kids brave enough to uncover it. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th
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