Give Me Something Good to Eat
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Publisher Description
This Halloween, the real fright begins…
A boy travels into a twisted version of his Halloween-obsessed town to save his sister from an evil witch and free the town from a decades-old curse. Perfect for brave readers who love creepy thrills, sibling bonds, and Halloween magic gone wrong.
Welcome to Pearl, a town obsessed with Halloween: the spooky decorations, the costumes, the candy. No one seems to notice that every October 31st, a kid goes missing. Mason Miller does, though. Somehow he’s the only one who has any memory the person existed at all.
When Mason’s sister, Meg, vanishes while they’re trick-or-treating, Mason and his friends are pulled into an underworld where monsters roam the streets. They need to fight the evil taking over Pearl, but none of them know the true danger they're facing.
Meg has been stolen by a witch who has no plans to let her go. Shadows of death curl around trees and behind doorways as Mason must use every ounce of bravery he has . . . or be haunted forever with the memory of a sister that only he remembers.
"Evil witches and terrifying alternate realities? New fear unlocked."--Lindsay Currie, New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Locked Rooms
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A decades-old witch's spell holds a small town in peril in this sardonic and terrifying thriller by Gillespie (One by One, for adults), a children's debut. Seventh grader Mason Miller, an Evil Dead enthusiast and resident of Pearl, N.C., is suspicious of his town's fanatical devotion to Halloween night. Even close confidant Serge—a charismatic, athletic foil to Mason's brooding nerd persona—shrugs off Mason's insistence that each year a child disappears and is scrubbed from the town's collective memory. When Mason's nine-year-old sister Meg is snatched by a scarecrow, the boys, along with two other classmates, give chase and find themselves pulled into a gruesome monster realm known as UnderPearl. The quartet's race to find Meg before she succumbs to a witch's spell lends itself to an effective and well-worn adventure narrative with a thoughtfully rendered resolution that gives an otherwise familiar tale some unexpected panache. Gillespie's writing shines, however, in the shiver-inducing descriptions of the ghouls the team encounter, including "oddly cute" skinless blobs, a reluctant pumpkin-headed henchman, and, in one showstopping scene of cosmic horror, eyeless triplets. Serge is described as having "dark-brown" skin; Mason reads as white. Ages 8–12.
