Jacksonville Public Library

Monstrous, Jessica Lewis

eng

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HL560L, Lexile

Ages 14+, Delacorte Press

fiction

Monstrous

1356890696

Jessica Lewis

Don't go outside past dark. Come straight home after church. And above all--Never, ever go into Red Wood. These are the rules Latavia's aunt gives her as soon as she arrives in Sanctum, Alabama, for the summer. Weird, but Latavia isn't here to solve any scary small-town mysteries; she's here for six weeks only, and then she's off to college and won't look back. Sanctum does have its perks--mainly, the cute girl who works at the local ice cream shop. But Latavia can't ignore how strange her aunt's tiny town is. The residents are suspicious of her and at times outright hostile, and it's clear they see her as some kind of outsider. Which is proven when Latavia is dragged out of her house in the dead of night, into the forbidden Red Wood, and presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient monster. Sanctum doesn't know Latavia, though. She won't be eaten without a fight. She'll do whatever she has to do to survive--even if that includes turning into a monster

adolescent