The Lake House
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
*Junior Library Guild Selection
*YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
*A YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Yellowjackets meets One of Us Is Lying in this masterful survival thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst.
"Formidably scary, Durst's survival/horror story is the stuff of late-night campfire legends. With three deftly drawn, powerful girls at the center, reading felt like I had found a crew of clever, loyal best friends, even as I stayed up long into the night, trembling with dread." —E. Lockhart, #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars
Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s just how she’s wired—her worst-case scenarios never actually come true.
Until she arrives at an off-the-grid summer camp to find a blackened, burned husk instead of a lodge—and no survivors, except her and two other late arrivals: Reyva and Mariana.
When the three girls find a dead body in the woods, they realize none of this is an accident. Someone, something, is hunting them. Something that hides in the shadows.
Something that refuses to let them leave.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Teens attending summer camp are hunted by a menacing evil in this suspenseful thriller by Durst (The Shelterlings). Hoping to provide her with opportunities to make friends and broaden her horizons, the parents of white-cued Claire Dreyer persuade her to attend a Maine-set summer camp known as the Lake House. There, she's joined by Reyva Chaudhari, who reads as of Indian descent, and Latinx-cued Mariana Ortiz-Rodriguez. After a local transports the girls to the remote residence in the middle of a lake, they find that the Lake House has been burned to the ground and their ride back to shore has vanished. Stranded on the island without cell service, the teens are forced to work together if they hope to endure their impromptu wilderness survival effort. The trio are optimistic about their chances of making it out of the ordeal alive, until they discover the corpse of a woman who has been shot. Even as they're subjected to further twists and 11th-hour revelations, the group's intelligence, resilience, and tenacity make them formidable protagonists not easily cowed by perilous situations. This pressurized, eerie tale is sure to satisfy. Ages 13–up.
