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A clever, heartwarming tale of funerary rites, ghosts, and the undying power of family.
— Holly Black, Newbery Honor-winning author of Doll Bones and The Cruel Prince
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Wildly inventive, totally hilarious, and unexpectedly moving.
— Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Silver Arrow and The Magicians
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A one-of-a-kind delight—mysterious, exciting, inventive, sometimes scary and always funny, Dust & Grim reads like a rollicking ghosts and monsters story, which it is. But just as important, it’s a compelling and tender story about family. Sibling duo Molly and Dustin will find their way into readers’ hearts as surely as they find their way into each other’s.
— Trenton Lee Stewart, bestselling author of The Mysterious Benedict Society
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Sucks you in with a wise-cracking zaniness that soon spirals into a delightful rampaging chaos of swarming vampires, thorny wolves, walking trees, and eldritch horrors. And yet even as the dangers for Molly and Dustin increase and the wise-cracks keep flying, the importance of family both lost and found grounds their story with a profound sense of heart.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, bestselling author of The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker, and Zombie Baseball Beatdown
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Spookily charming, bewitchingly creepy, full of hope, heart, and horror, Dust & Grim is the sort of book you gobble up in one sweet and salty bite.
— Delilah S. Dawson, author of Star Wars: PHASMA and Mine
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Every line of Dust & Grim is packed with a laugh, a sharp observation, or something radically cool, and sometimes all three at once. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Wendig is a welcome new voice in middle-grade fiction, and we are lucky to have him.
— Greg van Eekhout, author of Weird Kid, COG, and Voyage of the Dogs
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Playing to strengths demonstrated in his many comics and tales for older audiences, not only is Wendig a dab hand at concocting extremely creepy critters, but here he also pulls together a secondary cast of quarrelsome but supportive allies for the beleaguered teens.
— Kirkus Reviews
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Monstrously fun.... A sure pick for those enamored by Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (2008), and Tahereh Mafi’s Whichwood (2017).
— Booklist