The mystery of black hollow lane 35/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this middle grade adventure, the author has woven, not just one but two mysteries into the story while at the same time guiding Emmy through classes, bullies, and sports. Boarding schools just seem to me to be the perfect setting for mysteries, life-long friendships, and are ripe with opportunities for sneaking out past curfew. There is just something about books that have kids in boarding schools that I really tend to enjoy. ![]() Emmy can’t help but think that the society had something to do with her dad’s disappearance, and that there may be more than just dark secrets in the halls of Wellsworth. When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into walls and books, which leads Emmy and her new friends, Jack and Lola, to Wellsworth’s secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane. Her father who may have gone to Wellsworth. ![]() With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who’s a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she’s sure she won’t fit in.īut then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home-medallions that belonged to her father. The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane is a terrific middle-grade mystery adventure debut novel. But I’ve been fooled before by covers, thankfully this wasn’t one of those times. Sometimes you see a cover and just know that this is a book you must read. ![]()
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