The Bellwoods Game

The Bellwoods GameA New York Times bestseller! Perfect for fans of Doll Bones and Hocus Pocus, this beautifully creepy (Kirkus Reviews), highly illustrated middle grade novel follows a girl who hopes to fix her outcast status through a game in the haunted woods, only to discover that some legends shouldnt be played with. Everyone knows Fall Hollow is haunted. It has been ever since Abigail Snook went into the woods many years ago, never to be seen again. Since then,

“One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence

But none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion

Can she stop it in time before she and her friends are destroyed

over three major journeys

Both hopeful and elegiac

devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is

sparkling with warmth and humor

birds migrating

*Booklist (starred review)

Robbie is upstanding

Kendrick helps Jasalyn feel something other than anger for the first time in three years

this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths