The Deep Dark (PB)

Author: Knox Ostertag, Molly

Interest age: from c 14 years

Published on 4 July 2024 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator of the New

York Times and ABA Indie bestselling The Witch Boy

trilogy and The Girl from the Sea, comes a darkly

beautiful graphic novel about identity, family, love, loss and magic.

Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth.

Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already

feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for

her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts

with a girl who has a boyfriend. And then there's her secret,

which pulls her into the basement each night, drains her of

energy, and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and even

kill if it ever got out - like it did once before.

So Mags keeps her head down, isolated in her small desert community.

That is, until her childhood friend Nessa comes back to town,

bringing vivid memories of the past, an intoxicating glimpse

of the future, and a secret of her own. Mags won't get attached,

of course. She’s always been strong enough to survive without

anyone's help.

But when the darkness starts to close in on them both, Mags will

have to drag her secret into the daylight, and choose between

risking everything... or having nothing left to lose.

A hauntingly beautiful tale of identity, family, love, loss and

magic

Perfect for fans of the ABA Indie The Witch Boy trilology

and The Girl From the Sea

From the New York Times bestselling author, Molly Knox

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