A night of Halloween fun gone wrong has Jonas wondering if he's really
a wolf in disguise in this fast-paced fiction debut delving into
accountability, relationships . . . and zines.
For the past few years, twelve-year-old Jonas and his friends have
competed to see how many bags of candy they can grab from unsuspecting
trick-or-treaters. No one's supposed to get hurt, just lose their
treats. So Jonas is taken by surprise when one of his smaller targets
fights back against his snatching attempt. He's even more surprised when
he starts to receive anonymous notes from someone who knows what
happened that night. Jonas already has enough on his plate, between his
parents' ill-defined separation and his own guilt--guilt his friend
Concepción challenges him to confront in a zine she's creating around
the prompt "What's the worst thing you ever did?" It's a complicated
question, one that touches on issues of identity, maturity, physical
boundaries, and safety. Featuring zines crafted by award-winning
illustrator Theodore Taylor III, Phoebe Sinclair's debut novel relates
an emotive, reflective story about the wonder--and mess--of growing up.