The House on Yeet Street
-
- Pre-Order
-
- Expected Aug 27, 2024
-
- $9.99
-
- Pre-Order
-
- $9.99
Publisher Description
A hilarious ghost story about a group of thirteen-year-old boys whose friendship is tested by supernatural forces, secret crushes, and a hundred-year-old curse.
When Aidan Cross yeeted his very secret journal into the house on Yeet Street, he also intended to yeet his feelings for his best friend, Kai, as far away as possible.
To Aidan’s horror, his friends plan a sleepover at the haunted house the very next night. Terrance, Zephyr, and Kai are dead set on exploring local legend Farah Yeet’s creepy mansion. Aidan just wants to survive the night and retrieve his mortifying love story before his friends find it.
When Aidan discovers an actual ghost in the house (who happens to be a huge fan of his fiction), he makes it his mission to solve the mystery of Gabby’s death and free her from the house. But when Aidan’s journal falls into the wrong hands, secrets come to light that threaten the boys’ friendship. Can Aidan embrace the part of himself that’s longing to break free…or will he become the next victim to be trapped in the haunted house forever?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A clandestine crush and Luciferian curse threaten to rupture a tight-knit group of Massachusetts boys in this sprawling queer horror novel by Norton (Hopepunk). Unassuming Aidan Cross—who has a "personality like wet socks"—has feelings for close friend Kai. Unable to confess his crush to Kai or vent his emotions to the other half of his friend group—snarky Zephyr and intelligent Terrance—the 13-year-old instead pours his feelings into a private journal. After his notebook ends up inside a nearby haunted house, Aidan hopes to use his friends' ill-advised sleepover at the house to retrieve it without them noticing. During their excursion, the crew begins to tease apart a gruesome local legend, and Aidan's journal catches the attention of one of the resident specters. When some of the contents of his notebook are made public, Aidan, petrified of losing his friends, scrambles to solve the centuries-old mystery to reclaim the book before his private thoughts ruin his friendships forever. Though the overlapping layers of both the curse's backstory and the boys' social lives lend to an overcrowded plot, the core protagonists' goofy humor makes for an endearing and wholesome adventure. Terrence reads as Black; other characters cue as white. Ages 10–up.