Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Ride or Die by Delilah Dawson - ADVISABLE

Ride or Die by Delilah Dawson, 210 pages. Delacorte (Random House), 2025. $18

Content: PG (scares only)

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - ADVISABLE

APPEALS TO: SEVERAL

Brie has been trying to reinvent herself since her family moved.  She has been invited to the most exclusive birthday party and if she can get in with the school’s mean queen she has it made.  Instead, she finds herself the target of bullying and intimidation and is locked behind a walled off section of the amusement park.  A place rumored to be haunted since the deaths of a group of young park goers years ago. Brie runs into some other kids inside the park - and danger.

Dawson knows her middle grade horror. She ramps up the danger and the tension without being gross or bloody. I’ll happily add this to a horror display and recommend it. 

The characters are white.

Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS



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