It Came from the Trees
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • When her best friend is taken by a creature in the woods, Jenna is determined to save her in this scary story perfect for fans of Daka Hermon and Claribel A. Ortega!
The wilderness is in Jenna’s blood. Her Pap was the first Black park ranger at Sturbridge Reservation, and she practically knows the Owlet Survival Handbook by heart. But she’s never encountered a creature like the one that took her best friend Reese. Her parents don’t believe her; the police are worthless, following the wrong leads; and the media isn’t connecting the dots between Reese’s disappearance and a string of other attacks. Determined to save her friend, Jenna joins a new local scout troop, and ventures back into the woods.
When the troop stumbles across suspicious signs: huge human-like footprints near the camp, scratch marks on trees, and ominous sounds from the woods, Jenna worries that whatever took Reese is back to take her too. Can she trust her new scout leader? And will her new friend Norrie—who makes her laugh and reminds her so much of Reese—believe her?
After the unthinkable happens, the scouts, armed with their wits and toiletries, band together to fight the monster and survive the night.
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A predator lurks in the woods in Russell's spine-chilling debut. Eleven-year-old Jenna Thomas enjoys camping in the woods near her Massachusetts home, a pastime nurtured by her Pap, who was the first Black park ranger at Sturbridge Pines Reservation. But her love for the outdoors wavers when her Cottontail Scouts troop encounters a large, hairy bipedal creature that snatches her best friend Reese from their tent in the night. Jenna saw, smelled, and heard every horrifying detail, yet her mother doubts her claims and the police dismiss her testimony before abruptly accusing Jenna of lying. Jenna determines to save Reese, joining another troop, the Owlet Scouts, and resolving to plant survival packs for Reese along the trail on her next outing. Blog posts, newspaper articles, and scouting guides appear between chapters, cutting the tension and contextualizing the creepy happenings around the reservation. While descriptions of the creature are menacing, the anti-Black attitudes perpetuated by white authority figures are perhaps more so in this adroitly crafted horror novel whose heroine perseveres in the face of malice both supernatural and man-made. Jenna and Reese are Black. Ages 10–up.
