When eleven-year-old Mina is banned from screen time, she sneaks out of the house with her game console and takes refuge at the mall.
Mina is so focused on her game that before she knows it, the mall is closed, deserted and locked with her stuck inside. But...is she really alone? Mina searches for a way out, all the while feeling as if she's being watched. To her horror, the store mannequins come to life and chase her down, determined to make her one of their own.
The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Key Selling Points
• Eleven-year-old Mina is banned from electronics at home, so she runs away to the mall to play video games until she finds herself locked in the mall after it closes and is pursued by mannequins that have come to life.
• The premise of mannequins coming to life is a familiar trope that is treated in a modern way with gripping suspense.
• The suburban mall is a familiar setting for young readers and adds to the feeling that Mina's adventure could one day be their own.
• Black and white illustrations add to the suspense in this partially illustrated horror read.
• The author, Pierrette Dubé, has received several awards, including the Prix des libraires du Québec and the Prix Québec/Wallonie-Bruxelles de littérature jeunesse. This is her second novel in the Orca Shivers series, after Bad Bot.
In this short horror novel for middle-grade readers, Mina finds herself pursued by murderous mannequins when she gets locked in the mall after hours.
Pierrette Dubé grew to love children's books at the same time as her own kids did. And soon she started writing her own. She has now written more than forty picture books and several short novels. Many of her books have won awards, including the Quebec Booksellers' Award for Children's Literature in 2015 for La petite truie, le vélo et la lune; the English edition, The Little Pig, the Bicycle, and the Moon, was a Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year selection in 2019. She has also written Bad Bot in the Shivers series. She lives in Saint-Lambert, Québec.
As a child, Ninon Pelletier wanted to become an astronaut in order to see the world differently. Instead, thanks to her great imagination, she became an illustrator. She studied photography and graphic design, and has illustrated over thirty children's books. She was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award in 2016. She lives in Montreal, Quebec, surrounded by her pencils, charcoals and friends.
David Warriner grew up in the UK and escaped to Quebec right after graduating from Oxford. A professional translator for nearly two decades, David nurtures a healthy passion for Quebec fiction and has translated a range of fiction, nonfiction, and children's fiction titles by Quebec authors for British and Canadian publishers. He lives in Penticton, British Columbia. The Orca Shivers series offers fast-paced, quick reads that will thrill middle-grade readers with spine-tingling tales of horror, suspense and mystery. Will Mina get out alive?
