The Bellwoods Game

Perfect for fans of Doll Bones and Hocus Pocus, this beautifully creepy (Kirkus Reviews), highly illustrated middle grade novel follows a girl who hopes to fix her outcast status through a game in the haunted woods, only to discover that some legends shouldnt be played with. Everyone knows Fall Hollow is haunted. It has been ever since Abigail Snook went into the woods many years ago, never to be seen again. Since then, its tradition for the sixth graders at Beckett Elementary to play the Bellwoods Game on Halloween night. Three kids are chosen to go into the woods. Whoever rings the bell there wins the game and saves the town for another year, but if Abigails ghost captures the players first, the spirit is let loose to wreak havoc on Fall Hollowor so the story goes. Now that its Bailees year to play, she can finally find out what really happens. And legend has it the games winner gets a wish. Maybe, just maybe, if Bailee wins, she can go back to the way things used to be before her grandma got sick and everyone at school started hating her. But when the night begins, everything the kids thought they knew about the gameand each otheris challenged. One things for sure: something sinister is at playwaiting for them all in the woods.