A spooky tale of virtual school gone very, very wrong...
Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth
grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over.
However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote learning
from October to April, when the roads become too icy to navigate
safely. Being the new kid is hard enough -- how is she going to
make friends when she can't meet anyone in person?!
Luckily, the sixth grade class at White Pine Secondary School is
tiny (just thirteen students) and they're all super nice and really
welcoming. While chatting on zoom, they ask Lucy lots of questions
about living in the big city, some of which strike Lucy as a
little odd but she just chalks it up to the fact that her new classmates
have spent their whole lives in a VERY small town.
As the ice starts to thaw, Lucy grows increasingly excited about
meeting her new friends in person! But when she enters the school's
address on her phone's GPS, it leads her to a crumbling, clearly
abandoned building with a rotted wood sign in front -- a sign
that reads White Pine Secondary School.
There's nothing else in sight... except a tiny cemetery with snow-dusted
headstones poking out of the frozen ground. Headstones will
some very familiar names on them . . .
Lucy doesn't know what to believe. Are her new "friends" pulling
an elaborate prank? Or is truth far, far more horrifying?
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