ISBN: 1466824751 9781466824751

Category: Young Adult Fiction / Horror

Page count: 192

<p>On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named<br>Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh<br>pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with<br>her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the<br>eccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh,<br>known throughout their small western Pennsylvania town<br>simply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and Dolph have been<br>compelled by a powerful mutual love for their deceased mother<br>to do something extraordinary, something that in its own<br>twisted way bridges the gap between the living and the dead.<br>Immediately, Ivy's discovery provokes the revelation of a<br>Rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as Ivy will learn over the<br>coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own<br>mother.<br><br>In his third book for young adults, Jack Gantos has scripted a<br>completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor,<br>he depicts a group of people bound together by love,<br>compulsion . . . and a passion for taxidermy.</p>