|
You can celebrate summer with a steamy read — a sun-drenched romance or a bright, shiny fantasy. But when all that light and heat get to be too much, it’s refreshing to find a truly chilling book to savor. Two new books for middle-grade readers, one fiction and one nonfiction, offer chapter after chapter of goosebumps for overheated readers.
In “The Midnight Hour,” authors Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder offer a pleasantly spooky adventure that begins with garden-variety family heartache when Emily’s big mouth gets her in trouble with her parents, yet again. (Ages 8 to 12, Chicken House, $17.99.) But very soon, the trouble becomes far darker and deeper, as Emily’s parents disappear on a mysterious errand and strange mail and threatening visitors show up at her door.
When Emily investigates, what she discovers is the Midnight Hour — another world, frozen in time, filled with magical creatures and served by ... |
