Addie loves Alex, the only father figure she’s ever known, but with a new half brother due in a few months and a big school theater performĪnce on her mind, everything suddenly feels like it’s moving too fast. Twelve-year-old Adela “Addie” Ramírez has a big decision to make when her stepfather proposes adoption. Yet to uncover the truth, she will have to face her own painful history-and what lies behind the red door. Convinced her stepfather is up to no good, Essie investigates. And the red door from her dreams has become a reality, just down the hall from her bedroom in her terrifying new house. Now, something on the island is haunting Essie. Years ago, she watched in horror as the ship General Slocum caught fire and sank near its shores, plummeting one thousand women and children to their deaths. Essie knows the island is plagued with tragedy. That’s where Essie’s new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurable sick, including the infamous Typhoid Mary. Her mother has remarried, and they must move from their dilapidated tenement in the Bronx to North Brother Island, a dreary place in the East River. Most of all, she’s afraid of the red door in her nightmares. She’s afraid of the silver sick bell, a family heirloom that brings up frightening memories. She’s afraid of cats and electric lights. Kasper KramerĮssie O’Neill is afraid of everything. Can the last surviving beehive be the key to pulling the Valley out from under Silo’s thumb, or will they destroy what remains of Yoly’s future? Read More View in Catalog As she cracks long-guarded secrets, Yoly, along with those closest to her, is put in grave peril and the only chance of surviving may lie in the rediscovery of a long-extinct species-the honeybee. ![]() When forced to take matters into her own hands, the closer she gets to securing her future, the more she uncovers the dangers lying inside Silo’s walls-ones that threaten the entire Valley. Between her razor-sharp smarts and sheer determination, Yoly is well on her way until she discovers her family can no longer afford her schooling. Yoly will need to prove she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed. While life in the Valley is brutal and harsh, Yoly dreams of leaving her farm to live in Silo-the most advanced town for miles around. In a future shaken by climate disasters, Yolanda Cicerón knows that nature is something to be feared. But what if learning the truth about Spectacle Key means losing the first real friend he’s ever had? Read More View in Catalog What she does know, though, is that the island is under a curse-and she needs Frank’s help to figure out how to lift it. Could Spectacle Key be haunted? Then one day while exploring, Frank meets a girl in old-fashioned clothes, with no memory of who she is. ![]() There’s even a creepy doll that seems to move on its own. There are knocks on the door-but no one is there-and mysterious sighs and sniffles from nowhere. ![]() But Spectacle Key isn’t the perfect forever home they'd imagined. So when his parents announce thĮy’re moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a lighthouse-this time for good!-Frank is thrilled. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family moves-a lot. The Curse on Spectacle Key Chantel Acevedoįrank Fernandez’s family never stays in one place for long.
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