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Priestley, Chris, 1958-

Freeze / Chris Priestley. - Edinburgh : Barrington Stoke, 2021. - 119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

"When the temperature falls, the ghosts rise..."--Cover. Dyslexia friendly.

When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some brilliant ideas. Rising floodwaters uncover long-buried bodies and ghostly children take to the ice on a frozen canal. But as each of the stories is read out in class, Maya grows more and more uncomfortable. She features in each of her friends' creepy tales and they start to feel a little too real. Finally, when a mysterious new girl stands up to read the last story of the day, the light outside dims and it starts to snow. The classroom starts to freeze but everyone is trapped. Can Maya stop the story before the nightmare comes true?

Reading Age: 8 Interest Age: 9+

ISBN: 9781781129838 (pbk) 1781129835 (pbk)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
School children--Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling--Juvenile fiction.
Snow--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Horror fiction.
Ghost stories.
High interest-low vocabulary books.

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92