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by Adi Rule (Author), Joelle Dreidemy (Illustrator)
After eating a glowing green egg, aspiring journalist Florence Fortescue can suddenly see that her house is overrun with ghost chickens in this delightfully bizarre and hilarious first book of a new early middle-grade series for readers aged 8 to 12!
Ten-year-old aspiring journalist Florence Fortescue did NOT want to move to the country, leaving her best friend and city life behind. To make matters worse, Florence is shocked to discover a Minions-esque flock of ghost chickens running amok all over her new house -- and her parents are oblivious! Clearly, Mom and Dad need to take their precious daughter back to the city RIGHT NOW. If only she could convince them . . . Using her journalistic skills, Florence cooks up a sizzling exposé in her homemade newspaper: TERROR IN THE HAUNTED COOP! But when that plan fails, Florence has to enlist the help of her weird new neighbor, two bizarre dogs and maybe even the ghost chickens themselves!Author Biography
ADI RULE is the author of Nell and the Netherbeast, Why Would I Lie? and Hearts of Ice, as well as The Hidden Twin and Strange Sweet Song, which won the 2016 New Hampshire Writers' Project Literary Award for Outstanding Young Adult Book and the Vermont College of Fine Arts Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Prize. Adi's work has appeared in Hunger Mountain and NH Pulp Fiction anthologies. Adi is a member of the faculty of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing program at Lasell University.
JOËLLE DREIDEMY is an illustrator for magazines and children's books. She studied arts at university in Strasbourg and obtained a Master of Plastic Arts. She then moved to Lyon to study illustration, animation and sculpture at the renowned Emile Cohl School. Joëlle lives and works in Montpellier.
