DEKE MOULTON
Middle Grade Kidlit Author
S'more Spooky Stories: A National Park Anthology
Winter 2025 from Owl Hollow Press
A collection of family-friendly spooky tales set in US national parks, with all proceeds going to the National Park Foundation.
Join us for a collection of scary stories set in national parks, where 21 amazing authors have chosen a national park, monument, or historic site as a setting for a spooky story. Stories you can read by the campfire, that will haunt your dreams as you lie in your tent, listening to the sounds of nature in the darkness.
A collection of tales that is sure to both entertain and raise awareness of our precious national lands, so we and future generations can continue to enjoy them, including stories from Dan Wells, Fleur Bradley, Ally Malinenko, Josh Roberts, Steven Bohls, Kim Ventrella, Darcy Marks, Deke Moulton, Erin Petti, Jennifer Jenkins, Laura Parnum, Nicole Brouwer, Sarah Allen, Leigh Statham, Candice Marley Conner, Russ Colson, Adam Seable, James Francks, and Camille Leigh, with an introduction by Peter Black.
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BENJI ZEB IS A RAVENOUS WEREWOLF
2 July 2024 from Tundra Books (Penguin Random House Canada)
Benji Zeb has to balance preparing for his bar mitzvah, his feelings for a school bully, and being a werewolf in this heartfelt, coming-of-age novel for middle-grade readers. For fans of Don't Want to Be Your Monster and Too Bright to See.
Benji Zeb has a lot going on. He has a lot of studying to do, not only for school but also for his upcoming bar mitzvah. He's nervous about Mr. Rutherford, the aggressive local rancher who hates Benji's family's kibbutz and wolf sanctuary. And he hasn't figured out what to do about Caleb, Mr. Rutherford's adopted son, who has been bullying Benji pretty hard at school, despite Benji wanting to be friends (and maybe something more). And all of this is made more complicated by the fact that, secretly, Benji and his entire family are werewolves who are using the wolf sanctuary as cover for their true identities!
Things come to a head when Caleb shows up at the kibbutz one night . . . in wolf form! He's a werewolf too, unable to control his shifting, and he needs Benji's help. Can anxious Benji juggle all of these things along with his growing feelings toward Caleb?
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
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A National Jewish Book Council Book Awards Middle Grade Finalist
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Pedro and Danial Intersectionality Award Longlist
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Cybils Award for MG Speculative Fiction Finalist
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School Library Journal Starred Review
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Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
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One of Evanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for Kids 2024
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One of Parade Magazine's 18 Best New Book Releases This Week: July 2-8, 2024
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DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR MONSTER
5 July 2023 from Tundra Books (Penguin Random House Canada)
Two vampire brothers must set aside their differences to solve a series of murders in this humorous and delightfully spooky novel for young readers. For fans of Too Bright to See.
Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it’s morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat . . . just drink a little blood. They’re vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family.
Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in life (well, death) than just drinking blood, but fourteen-year-old Victor wants to accept his own self-image of vampirism. Everything changes when bodies start to appear all over town, and it becomes clear that a vampire hunter may be on the lookout for the family. Can Adam and Victor reconcile their differences and work together to stop the killer before it’s too late?
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A Sydney Taylor Honor Book
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
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Kirkus Starred Review
Booklist Starred Review
Publisher's Weekly Review
One of Evanston Public Library's 101 Great Books For Kids in 2023
Best of 2023, Middle Grade Kirkus Reviews
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