It's basically the worst school detention ever. When classmates (but not mate-mates) Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a SATURDAY, they think things can’t get much worse. But they’re wrong. Things are about to get seriously scary.
What has dragged their teacher underground? Why do the creepy caretakers keeping humming the tune to Itsy Bitsy Spider? And what horrors lurk in the shadows, getting stronger and meaner every minute . . .? Cut off from help and in danger each time they touch the ground, the gang’s only hope is to work together. But it’s no coincidence that they're all there on detention. Someone has been watching and plotting and is out for revenge . . .
What has dragged their teacher underground? Why do the creepy caretakers keeping humming the tune to Itsy Bitsy Spider? And what horrors lurk in the shadows, getting stronger and meaner every minute . . .? Cut off from help and in danger each time they touch the ground, the gang’s only hope is to work together. But it’s no coincidence that they're all there on detention. Someone has been watching and plotting and is out for revenge . . .
Book source ~ Tour
Jennifer Killick
31 March 2022
YA | Horror
195 Pages
My Rating ~ 4 bites
Classmates Hallie, Angelo, Gus, and Naira end up serving a Saturday detention together. The horror! No, actually, the horror is much much worse. It’s basically Thunderdome. Four classmates go in, will four classmates come out?
Pigs and chickens and spiders, oh my! This isn’t The Breakfast Club, not by a long shot. Ok, maybe a little bit. All four of our naughty detainees have something in common (besides being classmates and having done a dastardly deed) and they’ll find out what that is before the day is done. The action keeps the plot advancing at an even pace, the horror is sufficiently icky, and the villains are creepy but not too much so (this is MG after all). But what really makes this book shine are the kids. I love how pieces of them are revealed a bit at a time. No, not those kinds of pieces! Nobody is chopped into bits or anything so gross. Eeeeew! I also love how they are basically loners who figure out they have to work together to get out of their dangerous situation alive. And they show incredible courage and fortitude against impossible odds. If you like your MG books to have awesome characters plonked down in an awful situation then this is the tale for you! There’s humor, horror, and humility, oh my!
Jennifer Killick is the author of Crater Lake, the Alex Sparrow series, and middle-grade sci-fi adventure Mo, Lottie and the Junkers. She regularly visits schools and festivals, and her books have three times been selected for The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge. She lives in Uxbridge, in a house full of children, animals and Lego. When she isn't busy mothering or step-mothering (which isn't often) she loves to read, write and run, as fast as she can.
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