IRL

Author: Goebel, Jenny

Crime & mystery

Published on 13 February 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 176 pages
196 x 130 x 15 | 122g

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A spooky tale of virtual school gone very, very wrong... Lucy

is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over at a new school

when she moves to Alaska with her parents. Her first days at

school are all remote learning; how is she going to make friends

when she can't meet anyone in person? White Pine Secondary School

is made up of just thirteen students who all seem really welcoming

when they start chatting online. She grows excited about meeting

her new friends I.R.L.! But when she turns up at her school, she

is met with a crumbling, abandoned building. There's nothing there,

apart from a tiny cemetery with thirteen small headstones poking

out of the frozen ground. Headstones with some very familiar

names on them... Lucy doesn't know what to believe. Are her new

'friends' playing a mean trick, or is there something far more horrifying

at play?