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Synopsis
School was almost over. A secretive club on campus had organized a scavenger hunt for the entire senior class. In small groups, and with the help of cleverly planted clues, the kids are led throughout the city, and then deep into the nighttime desert. The sponsoring club has promised a wonderful prize for the first group to reach the goal of the hunt. But for Carl Timmons, a troubled young man who has recently lost his best friend, the hunt will become a nightmare. Led astray by his love for a strangely beautiful girl, he will wander far from the others, and back into a haunted past, where the line between the living and the dead is blurred and broken.
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Is Scavenger Hunt appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
A supernatural thriller where a grieving teen on a scavenger hunt encounters a mysterious girl who leads him into a haunted past. Contains mild horror elements and themes of death and loss appropriate for mature middle schoolers.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death, death of friend, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be drawn to this eerie mystery that mixes a school competition with supernatural encounters and a romance that crosses between life and death.