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Children are disappearing at night from the suburban town of Cowslip Grove--and no one remembers that they ever existed. No one, that is, except new kid Levi, who teams up with classmate Kat to find his little sister after she goes missing, too. They soon realize it's up to them to save their neighborhood from monsters living underneath the local ice-cream factory. Merritt's black-and-white line drawings of legendary creatures--which are truly the spooky stuff of nightmares--and the interspersed shaky hand-lettered text add extra creepiness.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2020