The Visitors
- Subject
- Ghost Stories
- Age
- 9-12 years
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnams Sons Books for Young Readers
- Size
- 14.0 cm Ă 21.1 cm
- ISBN
- 9780593111888
From the author of The Whispers comes a heartrending tale of friendship, hard-won truths, and the healing power of forgiveness.
A lonely twelve-year-old boy spends his days âstuckâ at the deserted Hollow Pines Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina with no recollection of his name, how long heâs been there, and no idea how to leave. Things never change much for the lost souls at Hollow Pines and time is strange when youâre dead. But when visitors from the living world arrive for the first time in a long while, the boy feels a spark of hope. These visitors are around his age, and they seem to understand more than others that the plantation is not just spooky or eerie, itâs a sad place where the unspeakable happened again and again. And if these kids could understand the truth about Hollow Pines, maybe they could help him uncover the dark secrets of his past and help him find a way to finally move on. But Hollow Pines doesnât like visitors. And with a malevolent spirit lurking in the shadows and painful memories buried deep, and for good reason, the boy wonders if heâll ever find his way home or be stuck at Hollow Pines forever.
A lonely twelve-year-old boy spends his days âstuckâ at the deserted Hollow Pines Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina with no recollection of his name, how long heâs been there, and no idea how to leave. Things never change much for the lost souls at Hollow Pines and time is strange when youâre dead. But when visitors from the living world arrive for the first time in a long while, the boy feels a spark of hope. These visitors are around his age, and they seem to understand more than others that the plantation is not just spooky or eerie, itâs a sad place where the unspeakable happened again and again. And if these kids could understand the truth about Hollow Pines, maybe they could help him uncover the dark secrets of his past and help him find a way to finally move on. But Hollow Pines doesnât like visitors. And with a malevolent spirit lurking in the shadows and painful memories buried deep, and for good reason, the boy wonders if heâll ever find his way home or be stuck at Hollow Pines forever.
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What reviewers said
âBeautiful, bracing, heartbreaking, and uplifting in equal measure. Not to mention deliciously creepy. Just wow.â âRoshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded Wolves and Aru Shah and The End of Time
âHowardâs intriguing novel . . . is smoothly written, the characters are appealing, and some surprises keep the plot percolating. A ghost story of substance.â
âHowardâs fourth novel is ambitious in form and quite successful in that regard; the perspective shifts between the first-person ghost in the present day and a third-person story about a White boy named Will Perkins, bullied for his same-sex attraction by his father, former best friend, and other classmates. Thereâs a bit of mystery about who the narrator is as well as an interestingâand heartbreakingâtwist. . . An atmospheric reckoning with the past and present, heavy but rewarding.â
"Greg Howard's latest book, The Visitors, truly has something for every reader: a haunting ghost story, a decades old mystery, a bit of history, and charactersâboth living and deadâyou root for. An important page-turner!"
âAuthor Greg Howard deals compassionately with tough issues like racism, homophobia, and bias, both individual and systemic, but manages to avoid preachiness and weave lessons from both history and today into a compelling, atmospheric, and original tale. . . While the story deals with intense issues, the ending offers an uplift of hope.â
Praise for The Whispers:
A 2022 Garden State Book Award Nominee
A 2020 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2020 Wisconsin State Just One More Page List Pick
