IRL

Author: Goebel, Jenny

Crime & mystery

Published on 13 February 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 176 pages
196 x 130 x 15 | 122g

  A spooky tale of virtual school gone very,

very wrong...

Lucy is eager to leave her

bullies behind and start over at a new school when she moves to Alaska

with her parents. Her first days at school are all remote learning;

how is she going to make friends when she can't meet anyone

in person?

White Pine Secondary School is made up of

just thirteen students who all seem really welcoming when they start

chatting online. She grows excited about meeting her new friends

I.R.L.!

But when she turns up at her school, she is

met with a crumbling, abandoned building. There's nothing there,

apart from a tiny cemetery with thirteen small headstones poking

out of the frozen ground. Headstones with some very familiar names

on them...

Lucy doesn't know what to believe. Are her

new 'friends' playing a mean trick, or is there something far more

horrifying at play?