



It's Watching
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A chilling middle school novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystery of Locked Rooms, three kids must discover who—or what—is terrorizing them after receiving an ominous meme on Halloween night.
"A creepy, freaky, fun-as-anything tale."—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Dust & Grim
On Halloween night, Josie and her two best friends, Jackson and Alison, sneak into the infamously haunted Bachelor’s Grove cemetery. They are hoping to prove the existence of a famous ghost to secure coveted editorial spots on the school newspaper. Instead, they are chased out by a security guard before they gather any evidence…or so they think.
Later, a sinister meme appears on their phones. It’s an image of the “phantom farmhouse,” an evil apparition rumored to appear to unlucky visitors at Bachelor's Grove—luring them in…and never letting them out—with the words I’m watching dripping down the screen.
Soon, strange and scary things begin to happen all around them. When a second meme from the same number arrives, this time with a countdown, they realize they have only three days to figure out who is terrorizing them. As they investigate, the trio must use their journalistic skills to uncover the truth, or risk becoming a part of the graveyard’s sinister past forever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Three 12-year-olds find themselves in the center of a chilling mystery in this unsettling page-turner by Currie (The Mystery of Locked Rooms). To secure a position on next year's school paper staff, budding journalist Josie enlists best friends Alison and Jackson, who is grieving a relative's recent death, for a clandestine excursion: on Halloween night, the trio sneak into Bachelor's Grove Cemetery to research the mythical Lady in White, an apparition purportedly photographed at the site decades ago. Startled by police, the group—joined by a charming yet disheveled boy also grieving the death of a close relative—flee the graveyard without paranormal evidence. They later receive horrifying texts stating, "I'm watching," suggesting that "something evil" has returned with them from their trespass. The group's warmly funny dynamic adds welcome buoyancy to the story as the preteens are harassed by a terrifying poltergeist. A phantom farmhouse, menacing fake news reports, and an ominous countdown accompany clues that propel the tweens into a frantic supernatural investigation that seems to reach back generations. It's an eerie mystery boasting horror-movie scares with an assuring tale of friendship at its center. Main characters cue as white. Ages 8–12.