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Aug 15, 2017 | ISBN 9780399550669 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
Aug 15, 2017 | ISBN 9780399550683 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
Aug 15, 2017 | 321 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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Aug 15, 2017 | ISBN 9780399550669 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Aug 15, 2017 | ISBN 9780399550683 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Aug 15, 2017 | ISBN 9781524721183 | Middle Grade (8-12)
321 Minutes
A ghost story with a literary heart for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Theater kids and ghost-story readers alike will find new meaning in the term stage fright. All great theaters have their ghosts. . . . After Olive Preiss freezes during a theater camp audition, she flees in despair. She finds herself at Maudeville, a beautiful old theater that she’s never noticed before. She enters, goes onstage, and sings her song. “Thank you for that lovely audition, darling,” comes a voice from the shadows. “I believe I have just the part for you.” Olive is thrilled to work with Maude Devore, the glamorous actress who owns the theater, and her eclectic cast of misfits. Yet gradually there are signs that Maudeville isn’t exactly what it seems. Sometimes—just for a moment!—it feels wrong. As opening day approaches, Olive’s doubts and fears grow. But no matter what, this show must go on . . . and on . . . and on. . . .“Richly drawn . . . a haunting and ethereal tale.” —Booklist, Starred Review
Michelle Schusterman is the author of I Heart Band, a Scholastic Reading Club pick, The Kat Sinclair Files, and Olive and the Backstage Ghost. She’s also an instructor at Writopia Lab, a nonprofit organization that offers creative-writing workshops for children… More about Michelle Schusterman
“A haunting and ethereal tale in the vein of Cornelia Funke’s The Thief Lord (2002). Nods to Edgar Allan Poe make it atmospheric, and Olive herself, a lonely heroine with ghosts in her past, gives it soul.” —Booklist, Starred Review“This dark, grief-filled tale is reminiscent of Stephen King’s It with a dash of Cirque du Soleil.” Kirkus Reviews“Schusterman’s language is haunting and elegant, filling the narrative with prose poems that float like ghosts themselves.” —School Library Journal“Equal parts heart and bone-deep creepiness.” —Claire Legrand, author of The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
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