Ghost Squad meets Hotel Transylvania in this sweetly spooky
fish-out-of-water middle grade story about a human girl who must put on
the performance of her life when she realizes what she thought was a
LARPing summer camp is full of real monsters!
With her stick-on fangs and widow's peak drawn in waterproof eyeliner,
Sylvie is an expert at pretending to be a vampire. More kids at school
would know that if they bothered to join her monster LARPing (live
action role playing) club. Not even her dad understands her passion for
the undead and denies her request to attend a monster LARPing summer
camp. But Sylvie is not so easily deterred.
She decides to tell her dad she's attending another camp located near
Monster Camp then sneak over to her real destination after he drops her
off. Sylvie feels bad lying to her dad, but there's no way she's going
to miss the chance to finally meet other kids that share her interests.
And when she lays eyes on Monster Camp, she knows it was all worth
it--the immersive campgrounds look like they came off a Hollywood lot!
But when an obnoxious kid dressed like a werewolf gets punished by being
magically turned into a Pomeranian, Sylvie realizes she made a critical
miscalculation. These aren't LARPers, they're real monsters, and
Sylvie's preferred costume means she's placed with blood-sucking,
human-biting campers who would breathe fire if they knew the truth about
her. She has no choice but to try to stick it out by doing exactly what
she does best: pretending to be a monster.
