Copyright Date:
2022
Edition Date:
2022
Release Date:
09/20/22
Pages:
273 pages
ISBN:
1-338-75432-7
ISBN 13:
978-1-338-75432-2
Dewey:
Fic
Dimensions:
20 cm
Language:
English
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews
A new girl deals with more than one kind of haunting.Morgan Calvino just moved to Long Island from Brooklyn and is having a hard time adjusting. She's obsessed with a series of Japanese novels, doesn't know how to wakeboard like the other kids, and also just moved into a notorious haunted house. She reluctantly joins forces with Joel Applebaum, who is described as creepy and weird by the girls Morgan tries to befriend, to unravel mysteries surrounding the child-sized Nazi uniform she finds in the attic, the Hitler Youth camp that existed nearby during the 1930s, and how to send a restless spirit to its resting place (answer: a mix of kindness and the Indigenous practice of smudging with sage). The chills are creepy and well executed, as is the awkwardness of being a new kid in a new environment. However, in a book grappling with the legacy of the Nazi Party in suburban White America, the Nazi characters, children and adults alike, are given more interior life and character development than the single Jewish character. Through flashbacks and one encounter with a friend's great-grandfather, readers are given multiple opportunities to empathize with and feel sorry for Nazi youth, who are presented as either generic bullies or victims of circumstance with no investment in their shared ideology, a troubling conclusion to present. Characters are cued as White except for one friend who is Black.Fun as a ghost story but doesn't fulfill its goal of exploring antisemitism in America. (author's note) (Paranormal. 9-12)
From Kelley Skovron comes a ghostly mystery that explores the little-known history of Nazi indoctrination camps in the United States.
It started off small. Just a dripping outside my window.
When Morgan witnesses some eerie happenings in her familys new house, at first she shrugs them off. But as the unsettling dripping noisesand the sounds of someone cryingbecome more frequent, she starts to get nervous. Then a neighbor asks Morgan a blood-chilling question: Whats it like to live in a haunted house?
It seems Morgans new home is notorious in the town of Port Jefferson, all because of Joseph Klaus, a boy who drowned in the 1930s after vanishing from his summer camp. Morgan begins learning all she can about the Klaus boy and uncovers the little-known history of the German American Bund, a Fascist organization that indoctrinated children and forced them into labor. Klaus wasnt just escaping from any old summer camphe was fleeing American Nazis.
As Morgan discovers the heartbreaking history of her new town, shell have to do everything she can to protect her family from the spirits it left behind. Because the ghost of Joseph Klaus is still trying to get homeeven if he drowns the people living there.