The Cold People (5) (Spooksville)

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Product Description

Frozen enemies make for a chilling challenge in this fifth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series—now on TV!

Adam and his friend are exploring the forest near Spooksville when they come across huge blocks of ice, hidden among the trees. They decide to melt one of the blocks, but when they do, a strange man comes out of the ice and tries to grab them! The man has very cold hands—and his eyes aren’t too warm either. Soon there are dozens of Cold People running around Spooksville, freezing the residents. Adam and his friends have an idea that just might save the day. Or will it get them turned into human popsicles?

About the Author

Christopher Pike is a bestselling author of young adult novels. The Thirst series,
The Secret of Ka, and the Remember Me and Alosha trilogies are some of his favorite titles. He is also the author of several adult novels, including
Sati and
The Season of Passage. Pike currently lives in Santa Barbara, where it is rumored he never leaves his house. But he can be found online at Facebook.com/ChristopherPikeBooks.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

The Cold People

1
It was another Spooksville mystery.

The town was freezing, and it was summer still. The cold weather was as strange as the boiling temperatures of a couple weeks earlier, when Adam Freeman and his friends had run into aliens. None of them could understand what had brought on the chilly snap. That Monday morning—when they first got up—every window in town was coated with a fine layer of white frost. Little did they know that by the time the sun went down, there would be frost inside many of the people who lived in Spooksville.

Adam, Sally Wilcox, Cindy Makey, and Watch started off the day by having their usual milk and doughnuts at the local bakery. Actually, because of the cold, they each had a cup of coffee as well, just to warm their bones. Watch had a thermometer in one of the four watches he regularly wore, and he studied it as they munched their food. He said he doubted the temperature would get above freezing all day.

“It’s still in the low twenties,” he added. “If we’re going to be outside today, we’d better keep moving.”

They took Watch’s suggestion to heart and decided to spend the day hiking in the woods in the hills around Spooksville. They pedaled their bikes until the road ran out and then hid them in some trees. Adam had been up in the hills before, of course, when he visited the Haunted Cave and the reservoir. But he had never been into the woods. He was amazed at the size and variety of the trees.

“This forest is like something out of Hansel and Gretel,” he said as they hiked along a narrow path covered with pine needles. He wore a heavy jacket, which he unzipped as he walked. The exercise was taking away some of the chill.

Sally snorted. “Hansel and Gretel were light-weights. They had only one witch to kill, and they got famous. We get worse than that every week and no one writes about us.”

“We need a press agent,” Watch agreed. “Our life stories need to be on TV.”

“Personally I like being unknown,” Cindy said. “I don’t need all the money and fame.”

“Wait till you’re a few years older,” Sally said. “Money and fame will be what you crave most.”

“I think all that stuff is superficial,” Cindy said.

Sally snickered. “Spoken like a true liberal. In this world you’ve got to cash in on whatever, whenever you can. For that reason I’ve started to keep a journal of my experiences. If I don’t die in the next ten years, I figure I’ll be able to auction the movie rights to my life.”

“Am I in your journal?” Adam asked.

Sally hesitated. “You’re mentioned in a small footnote.”

It was Cindy’s turn to snicker. “I bet the whole journal is about Adam.”

“That’s not true,” Sally said quickly.

“Ha,” Cindy said. “Prove it. Let us read it.”

“You can read it,” Sally said. “In exchange for a million bucks.”

As usual, Sally had the last word.

The Cold People (5) (Spooksville)
The Cold People (5) (Spooksville)

605.00

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