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The town of Bohring is home to more alligators than people. It is also the hometown of a monster curse where kids turn into monsters.
Kick Winter is living in the Hollows swamp with her fake psychic
grandmother Missouri. Kick is having a hard time making new friends and finding the space to do her scientific experiments.
Kick
recently discovered that the town's curse of turning kids into monsters
is happening. The townspeople are worried but, Kick knows there has to
be a scientific explanation for everything. She doesn't believe in
curses or monsters. As the new kid, she's determined to prove there is
no curse, even if it means becoming a fake psychic.
The novel was a fun read with outlandish characters such as a chicken
loving gator. I liked that the main character tries to use logic and
science to solve the monster mystery. I enjoyed the messages of
friendship, being true to yourself, believing in yourself and doing the
right thing. The book is an enjoyable read for middle schoolers who
loves mystery novels.
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Title: THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS
Author: Romily Bernard
Pub. Date: December 10, 2019
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 304
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Welcome to Bohring-home to 453 people, 2,053
alligators, and one monster curse.
Correction: home to 454 people, now that Kick
Winter is living in the swamp Hollows with her Grandma Missouri, the town
(fake) psychic. Bohring is anything but boring for Kick who has already blown a
hole through the kitchen floor, befriended a chicken-eating gator, and
discovered that the town's hundred-year curse is upon them.
It's the Bohring curse and all the kids are
about to become monsters-or so the legend goes. People are worried-except for
Kick. She knows there's a scientific explanation for everything, especially
curses and monsters. But Kick is the new kid in school and she's determined to
make a name for herself . . . by pretending to be psychic.
According to her calculations: one teeny-tiny
life + (fake) psychic skills = popularity. But when kids start disappearing and
glowing creatures start showing up, Kick's theory quickly evaporates in a puff
of foul-smelling swamp gas. Can Kick use her (real) science smarts to prove the
curse is a hoax? Or is it just-maybe-sort of-somehow possible the curse is
here?
Author Romily Bernard weaves a fast-paced
middle-grade mystery filled with humor and scientific intrigue, set in a
perfectly eerie Southern town.
About Romily:
Romily Bernard graduated from Georgia State University with
a literature degree. Since then, she's worked as a riding instructor,
cell-phone salesperson, personal assistant, horse groomer and exercise rider,
accounting assistant, and, during a very dark time, customer service representative.
. . . She's also, of course, now a YA novelist.
So don't let anyone tell you a BA degree will keep you
unemployed.
Romily currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Find Me is
her debut novel. It placed first in the 2011 YA Unpublished Maggie Awards (given
by Georgia Romance Writers) and won the Golden Heart Award for YA Romance from
the Romance Writers of America in 2012.
Giveaway Details:
3 winners will receive a hardcover of THE MONSTER HYPOTHESIS,
US only.
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