Tales to keep you up at night

Author

Dan Poblocki

Call Number

• J POBL (CEN, EAS, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : Penguin Workshop, 2022.

Physical Description

262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Audience

Ages 10 and up. Penguin Workshop.

Summary

Amelia is cleaning out her grandmother's attic when she stumbles across a book: Tales to Keep You Up at Night. But when she goes to the library to return it, she's told that the book never belonged there. Curious, she starts to read the stories: tales of strange incidents in nearby towns, of journal entries chronicling endless, twisting pumpkin vines, birthday parties gone awry, and cursed tarot decks. And at the center of the stories lies a family of witches. And witches, she's told, can look like anyone... As elements from the stories begin to come to life around her, and their eerie connections become clear, Amelia begins to realize that she may be in a spooky story of her own...

Contents

• Moll's well
• Babysitter and the bell
• Ride
• Green beans
• Swamp gas
• New house
• Baby witch
• Screamers
• Psychopath's tarot
• Happy Birthday Man Birthday Camp
• Strange clay
• Volunteers
• Nite crawlers.