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Pennies
(Blight Harbor)

Author
Illustrator
Alfredo Cáceres
Publication Date
September 23, 2025
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  6th − 8th
Language
English
Format
Chapter Book
Pennies (Blight Harbor)

Description

One hundred years prior to the events of The Clackity, four best friends are drawn into a deadly scheme when they set out to investigate the strange disappearances taking place in the eerie town of Blight Harbor in this spine-chilling middle grade adventure.

It's June of 1921 and best friends Mae, Lark, Brigid, and Claret have plans for the perfect summer. Between riding their bikes to the enchanted lake and decorating their fort for its resident ghost, the girls are a busy bunch. But when they discover a door in the forest floor that leads to an alternate world with purple skies and fearsome creatures, everything takes a turn for the worse.

Someone else has already been through that door, and it's triggered something incredibly dangerous. Maybe deadly.

Back in Blight Harbor, strange disappearances are taking place. The most worrisome being that of Brigid's cousin, who has been spending an awful lot of time with the unusual and untrustworthy John Jeffrey Pope. As the girls uncover the eerie world that lives right beneath their feet, will they find their missing friend, or will the most treacherous man in Blight Harbor get to them first?

Publication date
September 23, 2025
Genre
Fiction
Page Count
384
ISBN-13
9781665967242
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Series
Blight Harbor
BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV016000 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General
JUV018000 - Juvenile Fiction | Horror
JUV013090 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | Alternative Family
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
Magic
Mystery and detective stories
Detective and mystery fiction
Paranormal fiction
Space and time
1919-1933
Novels
Disappearances (Parapsychology)
Lora Senf
Lora Senf is a writer of dark and twisty stories for all ages. She is the author of The Clackity, a Bram Stoker Award winner The Nighthouse Keeper, and The Loneliest Place. She credits her love of words to her parents and to the public library that was walking distance from her childhood home. Lora finds inspiration for her writing in her children's retellings of their dreams, on road trips through Montana, and most recently at a very old plot in an older cemetery. She lives in eastern Washington with her husband, their twins, and two remarkably lazy cats. Visit her at LoraSenf.com.
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