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Perfect for younger siblings of Stranger Things fans, the Sticky Pines series is a riot of laughs, creepy secrets, hair-raising monsters and unlikely friendships.
When twelve-year-old, UFO-obsessed, Lucy Sladan sneaks out in the middle of a thunderstorm to investigate the unexplained disappearances in her hometown of Sticky Pines, she finds more than she bargained for: a huge hairy creature, a thirteen-year-old stranger named Milo Fisher and a deep-rooted secret. Together, Lucy and Milo become entwined in a mystery that threatens to engulf the whole town of Sticky Pines and its weird and wonderful residents.
Milo Fisher has found something lurking in Black Hole Lake. Something big. It’s the kind of monstrous discovery that would make his ex-friend Lucy Sladan’s mind explode like confetti, if he was still speaking to her, which he isn’t. But Lucy won’t be kept in the dark: she’s on to Milo, following her own clues, and closing in on an even greater secret...
Lucy Sladan has made the biggest, most bizarre discovery of all time...but still no one believes her. Even her best friend Milo Fisher is not convinced. But his father knows she is on to something. Soon Lucy is in a race to stop Mr Fisher’s monstrous efforts to uncover the source of the sticky-pine sap that is making his fortune ... and so risking the destruction of the world.
The world is in MEGA TROUBLE and only Lucy Sladan knows it. Her friend Milo is trapped in a mystifying mile-wide blob, his scheming father has kidnapped her extraordinary neighbours, and a mysterious ancient civilisation is hurtling across the galaxy to destroy all life on Earth. But not even an intergalactic invasion can keep Lucy from the mind-melting Truth that could save us all.
Dashe Roberts is a Californian who loves mystery, adventure and the uncanny. After several years spent in New York as a playwright, producer and actress, alternately raging against or being squashed by the machine, she moved back in with her mother like a true millennial and began writing her debut novel. The first three titles in her middle-grade sci-fi Sticky Pines series (The Bigwoof Conspiracy, The Thing at Black Hole Lake and The Valley of the Strange) are published by Nosy Crow.
UK Publisher: Nosy Crow (Books 1-3), KDP (Book 4, April 2023)
Extent: 272 pages (Book 1); 224 pages (Book 2); 288 pages (Book 3); 45,000 words (Book 4).
Primary agent: Christabel McKinley
Film/TV agent: DHA (Clare Israel)
Co-Agents: Chinese - Bardon Chinese Media; Japanese - Japan Uni
Rights sold: Italian -Edicart; Polish - Wilga (Contact Nosy Crow for rights to books 1-3)
<aside> 👽 ‘A bedtime-destroyer! The perfect book to read with a torch while pretending to turn the lights out and go to sleep’ - Louie Stowell, author of Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good
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<aside> 👽 ‘The most entertaining book I’ve read this year’ - Ripley's Enchanted Books
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<aside> 👽 ‘Book of Week: an hilarious, exciting sci-fi series with mass appeal’ - The South Wales Evening Post
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