The Wicked Deep (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481497343)

A New York Times bestseller

Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge--and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow...

Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.

Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.

Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sisters' return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into.

Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.

But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.

Author: Shea Ernshaw
ISBN-10: 1481497340
ISBN-13: 9781481497343
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 500138 / Wicked Deep


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 12/01/2017
Booklist 12/01/2017 pg. 60
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2018 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2018 - Book Of Special Distinction
Publishers Weekly 03/12/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 pg. 107 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Shea Ernshaw is the author of A History of Wild Places, the New York Times bestseller The Wicked Deep, Winterwood, and A Wilderness of Stars. She is the winner of the 2019 Oregon Book Award. She lives in a small mountain town in Oregon and is happiest when lost in a good book, lost in the woods, or writing her next novel.