Nightbooks by J A White, 320 pages. Katherine Tegen
(Harper), 2018. $7 (paperback).
Content: G (it is a bit creepy)
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Alex has been fascinated with horror since he was 4 yeas
old, but tonight he has decided to burn his notebooks of creepy stories. As he passes apartment 4E, however, he hears
his favorite movie. When he enters the
home at the invitation of the renter, he finds himself trapped in a real
nightmare. The woman is a witch. Her apartment is just a front – a way to
capture children. If Alex can tell her
an original story every night, she will keep him alive. There is only one other child in the
apartment, Yasmin, and a cat who is the witch’s spy. Then in the witch’s library they find writing
sin the margins of some books they may just give them a clue to a way out of
this terror.
An awesome creepy combination of Arabian Nights and Hansel
and Gretel! Nicely twisted tale that is just the right balance of horror.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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