Ronald L. Smith

Gloom Town (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A delightfully creepy novel from a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner imbued with magic and seafaring mythology. Lemony Snicket and Jessica Townsend meetGreenglass House,with a hint of Edward Gorey thrown in. When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a spooky old mansion in his gloomy seaside town, he finds the owner, Lord Foxglove, odd and unpleasant. But he and his mom need the money, so he takes the job anyway. Rory soon finds out that his new boss is not just strange, he's not even humanand he's trying to steal the townspeople's shadows. Together, Rory and his friend Isabella set out to uncover exactly what Foxglove and his otherworldly accomplices are planningand devise a strategy to defeat them. But can two kids defeat a group of ancient evil beings who are determined to take over the world? Another delightfully creepy tale from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Awardwinning author Ronald L. Smith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780358164494
• Artikelnr.: 59614089

Autorenporträt

Ronald L. Smith is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award?winning author of several acclaimed novels for young readers, including Hoodoo, The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away, Gloom Town, Where the Black Flowers Bloom, and the Black Panther: The Young Prince series. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. To learn more, visit strangeblackflowers.com.