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The midnight children / Dan Gemeinhart.

Summary:

When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.

In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani is eager to learn everything he can about his new neighbors: What secrets are they hiding? And most mysterious of all . . . where are the adults? Yet amid this shadowy group of children, Ravani finds an unexpected friend in the warm and gutsy Virginia. But with this friendship comes secrets revealed -- and danger. When Ravani learns of a threat to his new friends, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250196729
ISBN: 1250196728
ISBN: 9780800029845
ISBN: 0800029844
Physical Description: 342 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Target Audience Note:	Ages 8-12. Henry Holt and Company. Grades 4-6. Henry Holt and Company. 590L Lexile Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 87 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.3 11 517795.
Awards Note:	Mark Twain Award Nominees, 2024-2025