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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s, Teenage & Educational
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HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS

Amelinda Berube

The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of sisterhood turned toxic, imaginary monsters brought to life, and secrets that won't stay buried.

Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. Moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over. Maybe even build a normal life.

In their isolated new neighborhood, Skye manages to fit in, but Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their house and building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones.

Then Deirdre disappears.

And when something awful comes scratching at Skye's window in the middle of the night, claiming she's the only one who can save Deirdre, Skye knows she will stop at nothing to bring her sister home.

Amelinda Bérubé has been a writer and editor with a small department in the Canadian public service since 2008. She holds a Bachelor of Humanities from Carleton University and a Master of Arts from McGill and is the author of The Dark Beneath The Ice (2018).

Available products
Book Published 2019-08-01 by Sourcebooks Fire
Book Published 2019-08-01 by Sourcebooks Fire

Comments

A creepy, insidious tale that shows how treacherous a sister's attachment can be....For those who are not faint of heart, morally or otherwise, and who wish to sink into an intricate, subtle, and deeply unsettling read.

...Skye's loyalty to a sister she barely even likes results in complicated moral dilemmas for both her and her new friends, but the challenge for readers is to recognize, along with Skye and one of her friends, that their motivations for protecting the weak are far from pure, that the weak are not as weak as they might seem, and that monsters are not only outside but within.

Eerie and otherworldly...Thick with atmosphere and tension, Here There Are Monsters does what fairy tales do: it edifies as it terrifies" and a great one from BCCB " The horror of this creepy tale rests upon an increasing sense of inevitability and powerlessness against the spirit entities that inhabit the woods...[T]he challenge for readers is to recognize, along with Skye and one of her friends, that their motivations for protecting the weak are far from pure, that the weak are not as weak as they might seem, and that monsters are not only outside but within.