[LM_NET] BOOK: The stone child by Poblocki

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@GMAIL.COM>]

Poblocki, Dan. The stone child. Random House, 2009 [978-0-375-84254-2]
Advanced reader's copy
Eddie’s family moves to the town of his favorite author.  The town is
dark, strange and creepy with an evil presence and the author appears
to be missing.  The people in the town hold the author responsible for
the strange things happening in town.  Eddie and his friends
investigate.  After his mother gives him a journal written in code by
the author, he realizes that this journal might hold the clues to save
the town from the evil.  Eddie and his friends try to break the code
and get more and more involved in the evil enwrapping the town.  This
274 page book is a great suspense book dealing with evil.  It reminded
me a great deal of John Bellair’s early books, although it is a little
more evil.  There are large blocks of text written in a handwritten
font which I found VERY difficult to read.  This was a advanced
reader's book so hopefully they will have changed that for the final
edition.  Expected publication date is August 2009.


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Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School Library
Newton, NJ
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