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Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison. Tori would rather be on the soccer field, but her bad grades have benched her until further notice; Marvin would rather be at the first day of a film festival with his best friend, Kevin; and Noah isn't looking forward to having to make small talk with his classmates at this new school.
But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever. They must work together to uncover a killer, outrun a motley ghost-hunting crew, and expose the age-old secrets of the island all before daybreak.
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Release date
August 23, 2022 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593588246
- File size: 170826 KB
- Duration: 05:55:53
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 620
- Text Difficulty: 2-3
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Reviews
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August 22, 2022
Staying behind after a class field trip, three seventh graders endure a creepy night on the grounds of a long-shuttered island prison in this atmospherically heightened mystery by Bradley (Midnight at the Barclay Hotel). When Korean American Marvin, an aspiring filmmaker worried about being forgotten, sneaks off the class’s home-bound ferry to record footage for a horror movie, two other kids join him. In the night to come, white, soccer-loving Tori confronts her feelings about her older brother’s wrongful incarceration, while shy new kid Noah, a Black science enthusiast grieving his mother’s death, faces his fear of disappearing. Investigating the old mystery of the island’s notorious escaped prisoners, the tweens encounter the island’s caretakers, a ghost-hunting film crew, and very real spirits, only to have matters complicated when someone ends up dead. Convenient reveals sometimes sap tension from the unfolding mystery, but smartly employed horror elements—a wide-ranging third-person narration that includes the island’s perspective, an eerie setting featuring ever-present ravens and an underground isolation cell—contribute to a genuinely frightening feel that dovetails with a sober subplot examining injustices committed against the island’s prisoners and institutional racism in the U.S. legal system. An author’s note discusses prison reform and offers links for further reading. Ages 8–12. Agent: Laurel Symonds, Bent Agency.
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