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What to expect
Do you have the GUTS to join the Fright Club? Bestselling and fan-favourite author Sibeal Pounder will be here to introduce you to her brand new series Fright Club, a choose your own character twist on the popular choose your own adventure stories.
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About the book
Read a FREE extract from Fright Club here!
The night Joe Bones spots a cloaked figure leaving his gran’s house, he’s sure that something is afoot. So, when he hears that his gran has passed away he’s convinced the mysterious man has something to do with her death . . .
Then Joe discovers that his gran was keeping a secret . . . she was part of an ancient society called Fright Club, investigators of crimes in supernatural hidden worlds – from Clinks, the world of skeletons, to the ghostly Veilooo and demon-filled Devilbend. So, Joe convinces his three best friends, Hal, Debbie and Rose to revive the club and track down the mysterious figure to find out what really happened to his gran.
What Joe doesn’t know is that each of his friends has a supernatural secret of their own and starting their own Fright Club could unleash a whole heap of trouble . . .
About the author
Sibéal Pounder is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the much-loved children’s fiction series Witch Wars, Bad Mermaids and Neon’s Secret UNIverse, and the Christmas hit Tinsel. She has also written Beyond Platform 13, the sequel to Eva Ibbotson’s The Secret of Platform 13 and the globally bestselling novelisation of the film Wonka.
Her World Book Day book Bad Mermaids was a Sunday Times Bestseller, and Witch Wars was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award.
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