Mine von Delilah S. Dawson

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 256 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Verlag: Penguin Random HouseYearling
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780593373255

Praise for MINE:<br><br>YALSA 2022 Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers!<br><br>You ll think you re in aFlorida swampwith somethingcoming for youandno way out.Gross, sweet, exciting, and absolutelyhide-under-the-covers terrifying, I loved it. --Katherine Arden, bestselling author ofSmall Spaces<br><br>"Afiendishly creepyghost story, wreathed in thesummertime swampsandhumid tangleof Florida."--Chuck Wendig, bestselling author ofDust&Grim <br><br>"Spooky and twisty, with a killer setting and adetermined heroinewho won't take ghostly threats lying down."--Cherie Priest, author ofI am Princess X1.<br>Lily Horne was dying.<br>Literally dying.<br>Okay, maybe not literally.<br>But very, very theatrically.<br>This is the end! she gasped, swooning as much as her seat belt would allow. World . . . going dark. Can t breathe . . .<br>She took a moment to try out various moaning and gagging sounds, making sure she had the absolute attention of her audience, before naturally pivoting into the dramatic death that always made her cry.<br>I was aiming for the sky, she sang, low and questioning, following it up with a sputter.<br>Oh God, no more Hamilton, her mom moaned.<br>With a final gasp, Lily went rigid, eyes flown wide in shock and terror, then exhaled and let her bones melt so that her body went limp and unnaturally twisted, held up only by the constricting seat belt. Waiting for a reaction, she kept her breaths completely silent, her chest barely moving--a trick she d learned from a video by a corpse actor on YouTube--a guy who actually got paid to pretend to be dead. A little morbid, maybe, but it helped her land the part of Juliet last summer--and gave her a new possible career goal.<br>You re fine, her dad said, pretending to be cheerful despite the fact that he was talking with his teeth clenched together. He glanced at her mom, who was quietly crocheting in the passenger seat, her head studiously down as she tried to avoid having this argument. Again. Right, Laura?<br>Mom looked up. It s going to be great, she recited woodenly. A new beginning.<br>When Dad sighed, it was understood that he was disappointed in everyone--in Lily for being Lily, and in her mom for putting her in that first preschool production of Peter Pan and awakening her overly dramatic nature.<br>Would they respond this way, she wondered, if she were actually dying? Having a panic attack? Or a heart attack? If she just curled up and expired in the backseat without any of her telltale theatrics?<br>If so, they d be sorry they hadn t paid more attention.<br>As it was, she d been sighing and flouncing and swooning and groaning around the house in obvious misery for weeks, ever since Dad had announced that they d be moving to Florida. Lily didn t want to move to Florida because it was an awful place and her new school probably wouldn t have a drama club, or even a stage. Her Internet searches had revealed that there wasn t a local theater in their new town.<br>She d loved everything about Boulder, Colorado, from the audaciously wide skies and tall mountains to the startlingly sudden snowstorms and the fields full of popcorning prairie dogs. She d especially loved their local playhouse--which was an actual Quonset hut, according to the many informational placards she d read in the hallways over the years while in line to audition. She d never wanted to leave--until she departed for New York or Hollywood. Now the deeper south they drove, leaving her entire world behind, the worse she felt. Colorado was full of bright surprises, but Florida seemed so old and withered. Everything here was too hot and shriveled to do anything but make swampy fart sounds.<br>Lily wouldn t even let herself think about the reason they d had to leave. Her dad kept insisting Florida was a chance to start over, so when she saw the blue Florida sign with the oranges on it, she closed her eyes and lifted her feet to jump into her new life. She felt it, the exact moment they crossed that invisible border. It was as if a barrier resisted her slightly, as if the hot summer sun rejected exactly who she was, or at least wanted to punish her for rejecting it first. When she put her feet down, she felt no victory.<br>The miles rolled by and the car inched along the cracked, lonely highway, deeper and deeper into central Florida, an adventurer crawling toward deatA twisty, terrifying supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old, her creepy new home in Florida, and the territorial ghost of the young girl who lived there before her.<br><br>"A fiendishly creepy ghost story."--Chuck Wendig,New York Timesbestselling author ofDust&Grim<br><br>"Hide-under-the-covers terrifying, I loved it. --Katherine Arden, bestselling author ofSmall Spaces<br><br>Lily Horne is a drama queen. It's helped her rise to stardom in the school play, but it's also landed her in trouble. Her parents warn her that Florida has to be different. It's a fresh start. No theatrics. But this time, the drama is coming for her.<br><br>Her new house is a real nightmare. . .<br><br>The pool is full of slime, the dock is rotten, and the swamp creeps closer every day. But worst of all, the house isn't empty . . . it's packed full of trash, memories, and, Lily begins to fear, the ghost of the girl who lived there before her.<br><br>And whatever is waiting in the shadows wants to come out to play.1USDelilah S. Dawson thought she would be a visual artist but somehow ended up a writer. She grew up in Roswell, Georgia, and has lived all around the South, including Tampa, near where this book takes place. She has worked as a muralist, an art teacher, a barista, a reptile caretaker, a project manager, and a dead body in a haunted house, which was probably the most fun. She is theNew York Timesbestselling author ofStar Wars: Phasmaand fourteen other books for teens and adults, as well as the comicsLadycastle, Sparrowhawk,andStar Pig. She loves gluten-free cake, adventures, the beach, Disney World, and vintage My Little Pony. She once kissed a camel named Louis. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter @DelilahSDawson or visit her online at whimsydark.com.

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