Wickedpedia

Original author: Chris Van Etten
Wickedpedia 

SYNOPSIS:
It’s the return of Point Horror for the Internet generation! Don’t open the door. Don’t answer your phone. And whatever you do, DON’T turn on your computer…

Cole and Greg love playing practical jokes through Wikipedia. They edit key articles and watch their classmates crash and burn giving oral reports on historical figures like Genghis Khan, the first female astronaut on Jupiter. So after the star soccer player steals Cole’s girlfriend, the boys take their revenge by creating a Wikipedia page for him, an entry full of outlandish information including details about his bizarre death on the soccer field.

It’s all in good fun, until the soccer player is killed in a freak accident… just as Cole and Greg predicted. The uneasy boys vow to leave Wikipedia alone but someone continues to edit articles about classmates dying in gruesome ways… and those entries start to come true as well.

To his horror, Cole soon discovers that someone has created a Wikipedia page for him, and included a date of death. He has one week to figure out who’s behind the murders, or else he’s set to meet a pretty grisly end.

WHY SHOULD YOU CHECK IT OUT?
Did you obsessively read R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, and Caroline B. Cooney novels? Chances are many of your favorite high school horror novels were published under Scholastic’s Point Horror banner. After an eight year hiatus, get ready for new horror favorites to arrive on bookshelves everywhere. Hopefully this time around we’ll also see more nuanced protagonists and antagonists, too. Fingers crossed!

The cover is totally unsubtle and more than a little creeptastic. Winnie, the girl behind the skull, looks terrified and victimized. The two points of color with her green eyes may leave the impression that envy is the name of this game… as is so often the case!

Chris Van Etten is an American television soap opera writer (General Hospital, One Life to Live) who has collaborated with beloved YA author David Levithan (Boy Meets Boy, Two Boys Kissing). This is his first solo novel for young adults!

NECESSARY DETAILS
YA Horror
Paperback & ebook, 224 pages
Published on June 24th 2014 by Scholastic Inc. (ISBN 054541587X)
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/wickedpedia


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