TY - BOOK AU - Priestley, Chris, TI - Freeze SN - 9781781129838 (pbk) U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2021///. CY - Edinburgh : PB - Barrington Stoke, KW - School children KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Storytelling KW - Snow KW - Horror fiction KW - lcgft KW - Ghost stories KW - High interest-low vocabulary books N1 - "When the temperature falls, the ghosts rise..."--Cover; Dyslexia friendly; Reading Age: 8 Interest Age: 9+ N2 - 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? ER -