The Game: Number 1 in series (Valley, Band 1)

Product Description An eerie new young adult series about a college where kids go to start over—and a pair of siblings with a secretThe famous Grace College, located in a remote valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is an elite school for the highly gifted. But to Julia and her brother, it's the perfect place to hide. When they stumble upon a dead body their first week they'll learn they can only run so far from their past—and that the valley has secrets of its own. From Booklist In a setup volume chock-full of hints that things are not what they seem, teen sibs Julia and Robert (not, as it turns out, their real names) arrive at Grace College, an isolated school for the gifted in the Canadian Rockies. The author waits until almost the end to reveal why the two have gone into hiding, but from the outset, she threads in suspense-building elements such as prickly feelings and sudden screams, secretive fellow students, oblique references to something malign in the neighborhood, a lake subject to mysterious changes of level and temperature, clues to past tragedy at the school, thefts, pranks—and the drowning of a student who is revealed to have been a brilliant hacker with a taste for blackmail. Though the writing’s genre remains indeterminate and the plot runs to daily encounters with schoolmates, brief exchanges, and atmospheric language rather than actual incidents, readers who enjoy being given more questions than answers may find this intriguing enough to keep reading. Grades 6-9. --John Peters About the Author Krystyna Kuhn lives near Frankfurt with her husband and her daughter.