The Boo Hag Flex (Tales from Cabin 23 #1)
by Justina Ireland (Author)
Few campers at Camp Apple Hill Farm have found the mysterious cabin rumored to be hidden deep in the woods--but those who have whisper of a mysterious woman who tells tales of horrors beyond imagination.
Are you brave enough to visit Cabin 23? The last thing Tasha Washington wants is to move from her home in Savannah to a trailer park in Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father--a man she's never met, who abandoned her mom when Tasha was just a baby--she doesn't have much of a choice.
At least, she thinks, she won't have to spend much time with him--something that becomes clear when he dumps Tasha with her grandmother and disappears to be with his new girlfriend. The Shady Pines trailer park seems like a miserable place to spend a summer, even before an elderly neighbor suddenly passes away. But then Tasha meets a girl named Ellie who says she knows what really killed old Mr. Harold: a terrifying creature that stalks the trailer park at night, sucking the life from its victims.
Tasha doesn't believe it, but when she discovers a book of hoodoo legends in her grandmother's trailer, and more people around Shady Pines start to appear unwell, she begins to fear the stories are true--and that danger is much closer than she thinks.
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Kirkus
A hair-raising good time.
Publishers Weekly
Twelve-year-old Tasha Washington has just lost her mother, the only family she's ever known. She's taken in by her father, whom she's never met. He "would rather watch basketball with his friends than get to know his own daughter," though, so Tasha spends her time with her paternal grandmother, Ms. Washington, in her Georgia trailer park home. Tasha's grandmother is kind, and between Ms. Washington's presence and library of creepy tales, along with a new friend, Tasha thinks she might be on the path toward healing. That is, until a string of mysterious deaths strikes the trailer park. The circumstances lead Tasha to theorize that the deaths are murders caused by a boo hag: a creature wearing a human skin that drains mortals of their soul. Desperate to save her beloved grandmother as well as the other trailer park inhabitants, Tasha embarks on an adventure to stop the boo hag. But that's easier said than done, especially when the being's secret identity is less mysterious than she thinks. With this harrowing tale, Ireland (Rust in the Root) twines together grief and adventure via a pitch-perfect voice to launch a horror anthology series in which each entry will be written by a different author. Tasha's father is Black, and her mother is "light-skinned." Ages 8-12. Agent: Laura Rennert, Andrea Brown Literary. (May)
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Review quotes
"Dripping with tension, this is a briskly paced, pulse-pounding tale that's just as heartfelt as it is exciting, with engaging characters who will keep readers invested in the book's outcome. A hair-raising good time." — Kirkus Reviews
JUV058000 - Juvenile Fiction | Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural
JUV018000 - Juvenile Fiction | Horror
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
African Americans
Grandmothers
Horror stories
Monsters
Mothers
Camps
Horror fiction
Trailer camps
Log cabins
Hoodoo (Cult)
