Starred Review Eighth grade can be a horror show for anyone, but for best friends Val and Lanie it becomes downright demonic. Their picturesque town of Bolingbroke is conventionally nice, making anyone "different" stand out as a weirdo. Val's autism makes sensory processing and socializing a challenge, while Lanie is an easy target for bullying due to being trans. That said, the girls' obsessions with aliens, witchcraft, and writing fan fiction don't do them any favors popularity-wise, but they don't care. When Val gets the opportunity to do an independent study project ll, "independently" with Lanie e decides to investigate a local ghost story. This, however, leads to an even juicier topic: the Ojja-Wojja. As the girls dig into their research (beginning in the library's secret archives cool, right?!), they discover sinister history linking the town's founder to a secret society in cahoots with a "monster god" known as Ojja-Wojja. When they happen upon instructions for summoning the monster, Lanie puts her fascination with witchcraft into practice with disastrous results for the entire town. Characters drive this "horror-mystery," which is generously laced with humor and empathy, and St-Onge's playful artwork embraces the tongue-in-cheek tone with cinematic spreads that pay homage to the Sailor Senshi, Star Wars, horror conceits, cheesy PSAs, and the girls' sf fanfic. A fantastically fun underdog story.