An equal parts heart-pounding and heartfelt middle-grade mystery about facingāāand acceptingāāyour fears, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and The Parker Inheritance Bones Malone feels like he canāt do anything right in his new small town: He almost punched the son of the woman who babysits him and his brothers, heās one of the only Black kids in Langille, and now his baseball team (the one place where he really feels like he shines) just lost their first game. To make matters worse, things in town are getting weird. His mom isnāt acting like herself at allāsheās totally spaced out, almost like a zombie. And then he and his brothers have the same dreamāone where theyāre running from some of their deepest fears, like a bear and an eerie cracked mirror that Bones would rather soon forget. Kyle Specks feels like he can never say the right thing at the right time. He thinks he might be neurodivergent, but he hasnāt gotten an official diagnosis yet. His parents worry that the world might be too hard for him and try to protect him, but Kyle knows they canāt do that forever. Even though heās scared, he canāt just stand by and do nothing while things in this town get stranger and stranger, especially not after he and Bones find a mysterious scientistās journal that might hold answers about whatās going on. But when faced with seemingly impossible situations, a shady corporation, and their own worst nightmares, will Kyle and Bones be brave enough to admit they're scared? Or will the fear totally consume and control them?