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    Texting the Underworld by Ellen Booraem | Book Spotlight

    Bianca SchulzeBy Bianca Schulze2 Mins Read Ages 9-12
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    Texting the UnderworldEllen Booraem’s TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD.

    Move over vampires and wizards! There is a new banshee on the block!

    Reading level: Ages 10 and up

    Hardcover: 320 pages

    Book Overview

    Perpetual scaredy-cat Conor O’Neill has the fright of his life when a banshee girl named Ashling shows up in his bedroom. Ashling is–as all banshees are–a harbinger of death, but she’s new at this banshee business, and first she insists on going to middle school. As Conor attempts to hide her identity from his teachers, he realizes he’s going to have to pay a visit to the underworld if he wants to keep his family safe.

    “Got your cell?”
    “Yeah . . . . Don’t see what good it’ll do me.”
    “I’ll text you if anything happens that you should know.”
    “Text me? Javier, we’ll be in the afterlife.”
    “You never know. Maybe they get a signal.”

    Discover why Kirkus has called Booraem’s work “utterly original American fantasy . . . frequently hysterical.” This totally fresh take on the afterlife combines the kid next door appeal of Percy Jackson with the snark of Artemis Fowl and the heart of a true middle grade classic.

    About the Author

    Ellen Booraem’s TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD, a middle-grade fantasy about a scaredy-cat South Boston boy and a determined young banshee, hits bookstores in August (Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers). Her earlier middle-grade fantasies are SMALL PERSONS WITH WINGS (Penguin/DBYR, 2011) and THE UNNAMEABLES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008). She lives in coastal Maine with an artist, a dog, and a cat, one of whom is a practicing curmudgeon. She’s online at ellenbooraem.com, and also blogs at scene13ers.wordpress.com.

    Add this book to your collection now: TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD

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    Bianca Schulze is the founder of The Children’s Book Review. She is a reader, reviewer, mother and children’s book lover. She also has a decade’s worth of experience working with children in the great outdoors. Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado.

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    1. Bianca Schulze on September 4, 2013 1:17 pm

      Congratulations to J. Tibbetts and K. Thuet! You each have a copy of this book coming your way. Enjoy!

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