![]() ![]() ![]() Arden ( The Bear and the Nightingale) shrouds her Halloween-time story in autumnal mists, introducing a sometimes-crowded cast of ominous figures, from ghosts to shapeshifters and scarecrow minions. keep to small.” In its pages, Ollie reads of a long-ago family whose losses led them to make a dreadful pact with a demonic figure known as “the smiling man.” And on a class trip to a dairy farm, Ollie and two classmates-with whom she forms a reluctant connection-learn that the smiling man is very real. When Ollie, drawn to the book, takes it, the woman warns Ollie to “avoid large places at night. ![]() Her circumstances take a supernatural turn when she encounters a frightening woman attempting to throw a book into the river. Eleven-year-old Ollie lives with her big-hearted baking enthusiast father following the tragic death of her mother, and finds respite from her grief through reading. ![]()
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