Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse.
Nothing about Kess Pedrock’s life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon’s head in a jar named Shrunken Jim).
But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse—and the only clue she has leads straight into the center of Eelgrass Bog.
Everyone knows the bog is full of witches, demons, and possibly worse, but Kess and Lilou are determined not to let that stop them. As they investigate the mystery and uncover long-buried secrets, Kess begins to realize that the curse might hit closer to home than she’d ever expected, and she’ll have to summon all her courage to find a way to break it before it’s too late.
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“Averling’s worldbuilding is deft and beguiling…A deliciously offbeat magical adventure.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Whimsically creepy…straddles the line between slimy and sweet.”
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Mary Averling is the author of a fantasy novel for middle-graders, The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, named a best book of the month by BookPage. She grew up in England and Canada and has degrees from the University of Victoria and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Ontario, where she is surrounded by all the magical, spooky, heartfelt books she can find.
Kimberly Woods is an actress and producer, known for Crazed, Heartprints, and Cartoon Hook-Ups.