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Title :

Wake the bones / Elizabeth Kilcoyne.

Title:

Wake the bones

Author:

Kilcoyne, Elizabeth

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

ISBN:

9781250790828

Production / Publication Information:

New York : Wednesday Books, 2022.

Summary:

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.

Target audience note:

Ages 13-18.

Language:

English

Genre:

Geographic Term:

Kentucky -- Juvenile fiction.

Kentucky -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Grief -- Juvenile fiction.

Ghost stories.

Fate and fatalism -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction.

College dropouts -- Juvenile fiction.

Monsters -- Juvenile fiction.

Magic -- Juvenile fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

Ghosts -- Fiction.

Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.

Mothers -- Fiction.

Magic -- Fiction.

Holds: Copies:

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Book	Searching... Andover - Memorial Hall Library	TEEN FICTION KILCOYNE	31330009228515	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Amesbury Public Library	YA FIC KILCOYNE	32114002723550	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Georgetown Peabody Library	YA FIC KILCOYNE	32120001401874	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Groveland - Langley-Adams Library	YA FIC KILCOYNE	32121000922175	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Hamilton-Wenham Public Library	Y KIL	30470002026044	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Haverhill Public Library	YA/KILCOYNE E	31479007553497	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Ipswich Public Library	YA FIC KILCOYNE, ELIZABETH	32122002963605	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Lowell - Pollard Memorial Library	YA SCI-FI/FANTASY KILCOYNE	31481005680777	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library	YA FIC KIL	32124002089357	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Methuen - Nevins Memorial Library	YA KIL	31548003434421	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Middleton - Flint Public Library	Y KILCOYNE	32126001878003	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Newburyport Public Library	YA KILCOYNE	32128004096344	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... North Andover - Stevens Memorial Library	TEEN KILCOYNE	31478010206184	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Rockport Public Library	YA FIC KILCOYNE	32129002517430	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Rowley Public Library	YA FIC KIL	32130001035846	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Tewksbury Public Library	TEEN FICTION KILCOYNE	32132003331116	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Topsfield Town Library	YA KILCOYNE	32133002635580	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Westford - J.V. Fletcher Library	YA F KILCOYNE	31990005134536	Searching... Unknown
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Summary

"YA horror has found a new standard-bearer." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Dark, gripping, and gorgeous, Wake the Bones will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force." - Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author

The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened . The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away.

After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can't help but love. Instead, a devil from her past has returned to court her, as he did her late mother years earlier. Now, Laurel must unravel her mother's terrifying legacy and tap into her own innate magic before her future and the fate of everyone she loves is doomed.

Elizabeth Kilcoyne's Wake the Bones is a dark, atmospheric debut about the complicated feelings that arise when the place you call home becomes hostile.

"Seething with shadows, summer, and uniquely southern magic, Wake the Bones is a powerful debut that captures the ache of home being a place you simultaneously love and loathe." - Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf

Reviews (3)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 10 Up--Back home in her small town after a failed year of college, Laurel Early seems to be falling back into farm life with her best friend Isaac and the Mobley boys, Garrett and Ricky. Additionally, her new side hobby of creating bone jewelry is connecting her to the nature of the forest and keeps her mind occupied. But when her family's past comes back to haunt her, Laurel must face a gruesome creature to protect those she holds most dear. Magic is at play, and the creature demands blood--the question Laurel has yet to figure out is whose. Kilcoyne's debut takes a small-town setting and twists it into a dark supernatural landscape stalked by an unnatural beast. Lush descriptions of the environment are covered with intricate details of decay and horror, building a tense world for the characters. The macabre monster targeting Laurel is not only a physical terror, but a great illustration of multiple characters' familial grief as a devil parasite that's relentlessly consuming life and weighing them down. Influenced by past darkness, Laurel and Isaac's evolving relationships with each of the Mobley boys brings light to their dim outlooks, reshaping their view on how wide and open the world truly is. All characters are described as white. Sensitivity content warning is included at the beginning for abuse, violence, suicide, and more. VERDICT A southern gothic horror sure to thrill, and thoroughly creep out, readers.--Emily Walker

Publisher's Weekly Review

Nineteen-year-old white-cued Laurel Early battles supernatural forces on her family's tobacco farm in Kilcoyne's visceral horror debut. Laurel's late mother Anna, who was a pariah in their rural Kentucky town, used her magic to grow healthy crops. The magic Laurel inherited, she believes, is less practical: when she touches a deceased animal's body, she sees its death. After dropping out of college in Ohio, she returns home to help her uncle Jay run the farm alongside best friends Isaac, Ricky, and Garrett, all coded white. Increasingly strange and terrifying events--animals found brutally killed but uneaten, a giant monster made of bone, and Anna's ghost issuing warnings--prompt Laurel to consult local outcast Christine, who reluctantly helps Laurel harness her magic. Laurel and Ricky's combative romance and Isaac and Garrett's tentative courtship are expertly developed, and their complex relationships with the "mean-mouthed and close-minded" townsfolk, the land itself, and each other are realistically thorny. Using an ominous third-person perspective, grisly horror elements, and distinct setting, Kilcoyne delivers an exceptional examination of life, death, and grief teeming with beauty and menace. Ages 13--up. Agent: Erin Clyburn, Jennifer De Chiara Literary. (July)

Kirkus Review

Nineteen-year-old Laurel and her friends grapple with a curse on their town in this Southern gothic debut. In the small farming town of Dry Valley, Kentucky, Laurel faces her family legacy. Her mother had strange gifts before her mysterious death in their old well, leaving Laurel to grow up orphaned (and with a less useful gift: As a taxidermist, Laurel can read death stories from bones). When she and her best friends--turned--farm co-workers discover a grisly scene by the reopened well, it's only the beginning of the seemingly impossible--and increasingly dangerous--happenings. While confronting the past, Laurel and her friends, all distinctly drawn, also look to the future and who they want to be--for Laurel and Ricky, it's a charmingly bristling courtship dance. For Laurel's best friend, Isaac, and Ricky's brother, Garrett, it's more complicated. Garrett, happily a country boy, loves Isaac, but Isaac can't let himself love Garrett back as, to survive and escape Dry Valley (and an abusive situation), he knows he must leave. The characters, who default to White, are easy to get invested in as personal stakes climb so high that survival isn't a given. Told in the third-person, the novel's poetic language is atmospheric and evocative. Grounding depictions of the natural world are as vivid and lush as the descriptions of haunting horrors that are beautiful in their gruesomeness. These passages never slow the plot and frequently enhance the tension and suspense. In Kilcoyne, YA horror has found a new standard-bearer. (Horror. 13-18) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.