Anica Mrose Rissi – författare

The nail-bitingly intense story of a summer at camp that ends in a disturbing death—and depicts a powerful friendship that won’t ever be forgotten. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Broken Things.Kayla is still holding on to Lainie’s secrets. After all, Lainie is Kayla’s best friend. And despite Lainie’s painful obsession with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, and the ways he has tried to come between them, friends don’t spill each other’s secrets. They don’t betray each other’s trust.The murder at the end of the summer doesn’t change all that.Besides—Kayla knows that the truth is not the whole story.  YA Psychological Thriller: Set over one fateful summer, this story plunges you into the obsessive world of two teenage girls where loyalty and lies become dangerously blurred.Unreliable Narrator: Told through letters from Kayla to Lainie after the murder, every memory is suspect. Can you trust a narrator who admits the truth isn’t the whole story?Summer Camp Thriller: Sun-soaked days and secret-filled nights at Camp Cavanick take a dark turn when a summer romance ends with a body in the lake.Secrets and Lies: Lainie trusted Kayla with everything—especially her secrets about her toxic boyfriend, Jackson. But after the murder, holding on to those secrets might be the most dangerous thing Kayla can do.

A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long…A look-alike doll makes itself right at home…A school talent-show act leaves the audience aghast…And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains…This collection of all-new spooky stories is sure to keep readers up past their bedtimes, looking over their shoulders to see what goes bump in the night.So if you’re feeling brave, turn the page.?Perfect for Halloween ReadingIdeal for fans of the supernaturalFeatures light scares

A group of students must convince their teacher to give up their strange, definitely-not-a-tadpole class pet in this laugh-out-loud tale, now in paperback!When their class tadpoles are big enough, Mr. Stricter tells his students they can keep just one. The class chooses Bruno, the smallest of the bunch. But Bruno doesn't stay that way for long. Soon, he's grown into a giant, classroom-wrecking creature: he eats desks, he farts for show-and-tell, and he sneezes slime all over everything! Everyone can see that Bruno is trouble. Everyone except Mr. Stricter. With their teacher blinded by his love for the pet, the students must step up and take matters into their own heroic hands.

Destiny cannot count on anyone but herself. Her mother has struggled with addiction for all of Destiny’s seventeen years, moving them from town to town, bad boyfriend to bad boyfriend - including a particularly dark period in Texas, where Destiny ended up in a psychiatric hospital. But now they’re in a small town in a new state and her mother’s new boyfriend is sober and stable. And even more remarkable, Destiny has caught the eye of local golden boy Ryan.But Destiny’s fairy tale bubble bursts when Ryan says their summer romance has to give way to football season. Destiny spirals hard, retreating into the same delusional and dissociative patterns that landed her in psychiatric care as a child, but this time the breakdown culminates in a pregnancy that can’t possibly be real. Destiny’s skill as an artist is alternately a lifeline and a millstone as she struggles to resurface and reconnect with reality.