August, John Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire, 318
pages. Roaring Brook (Macmillan),
2018. $17. Language: G (1 swear, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content:
G; Violence: PG (some danger and fighting).
Since is father fled to China to escape reprisals for some
of his work, Arlo, his sister and his mother have moved from place to
place. Now they have come
rock-bottom. They are back in Pine
Mountain, Colorado, where his parents grew up, sharing the old family home with
their taxidermist uncle. But their uncle
is not the strangest thing about Pine Mountain. The local Boy Scout-like troop that Arlo has
joined actually use supernatural forces
in their scouting. They and other Ranger
troops, as they are called, live near
the Long Woods, the borderlands between our world and the eldritch world. Years ago a child disappeared and Arlo may be
next.
August does a good job of setting up the world while setting
things up for a deeper book next in the series.
At least that’s what I assume, because there are lots of great loose
ends and places to dive even deeper. So
much fun!
EL, MS – ESSENTIAL.
Cindy, Library Teacher
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