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It Came From the Trees by Ally Russell

Genre: Middle Grade Horror

Publishing Date: July 30, 2024

 

Synopsis:

The legend of Bigfoot gets a bone-chilling update in this scary story about a young girl and her scout troop who are willing to brave the woods to find her missing friend when no one else will. Perfect for fans of Daka Hermon and Claribel A. Ortega!

The wilderness is in Jenna’s blood. Her Pap was the first Black park ranger at Sturbridge Reservation, and she practically knows the Owlet Survival Handbook by heart. But she’s never encountered a creature like the one that took her best friend Reese. Her parents don’t believe her; the police are worthless, following the wrong leads; and the media isn’t connecting the dots between Reese’s disappearance and a string of other attacks. Determined to save her friend, Jenna joins a new local scout troop, and ventures back into the woods.

When the troop stumbles across suspicious huge human-like footprints near the camp, scratch marks on trees, and ominous sounds from the woods, Jenna worries that whatever took Reese is back to take her too. Can she trust her new scout leader? And will her new friend Norrie—who makes her laugh and reminds her so much of Reese—believe her?

After the unthinkable happens, the scouts, armed with their wits and toiletries, band together to fight the monster and survive the night.

Content Warning: microaggressions, racism

 

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About the Author:

Ally grew up on a steady diet of Halloween parties, horror films, Unsolved Mysteries, and Goosebumps books. She has always loved scary stories, and got her MFA from Simmons University and, eventually, a job working in children’s publishing. She hails from Pittsburgh—ground zero for the zombie apocalypse. Ally lives with her husband and her two black cats, Nox and Fury. She’s afraid of the woods, the dark, and heights. It Came from the Trees is her debut novel.

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Holy Cow It Came from the Trees was creepy. Jenna our main character was the best main character that I have seen in a while. She stuck to what she knew even when people did not believe what had happened and she never gave up and to me they are amazing strengths.


Ally really knew when and when not to ramp situations up and I found myself literally shouting at the book as I was reading Do not go in there, Run as fast as you can like it was being played out on the screen and I never ever have done that before EVER.


This should be picked up asap and turned into a film so come on Netflix and Disney lets do this.


For all the above reasons It came from the Trees gets 5 big fat stars

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