IT CAME FROM THE TREES

After Jenna’s best friend goes missing during a camping trip in the Massachusetts woods, she sets out to find her—and in the process heals some wounds.

Jenna loves nature—her mom and Pap (her park ranger grandfather) have made camping and hiking a part of their family culture. So she jumped at the opportunity to join the Cottontail Scouts and brought her best friend, Reese, along for the ride. But the group, with its expensive membership fees, isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and the white scout leader makes the two Black girls feel unwelcome. When a mysterious humanoid beast attacks their tent in the middle of the night, hauling Reese away, no one believes Jenna’s report, not even her mom, and Reese is labeled a runaway. But Jenna’s determined to find her friend, and the best way to do that is to return to the woods. Jenna persuades her mom to let her join the free and more welcoming Owlet Scouts, who are camping 10 miles from the site of Reese’s abduction. Jenna must battle her anxieties and find ways to trust again in order to face down literal and metaphorical monsters. The thrilling, fast-paced plot will keep the pages flying, and several juicy endings are left untied, leaving readers hoping there might be more tales to come.

Enticing campfire thrills and chills.