IRL

Author: Goebel, Jenny

Crime & mystery

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

Paperback / softback | 176 pages
198 x 129 | 0g

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?