ABOUT SUPER FREAK:
Super Freak by Vanessa Barger
Publication Date: October 13, 2015
Publisher: Tantrum Books
Genre: MG, Fantasy
Thirteen-year-old Caroline is a freak.
Her parents have uprooted her to a town full of Supernaturals. You’d
think she’d be thrilled. But, with someone without a magical bone
in her body, this daughter of tree sprites feels like even more of an
outcast than she has ever before.
To make matters worse, her new home is
cursed. But when Caroline takes to investigating the mysterious and
strange happenings of Harridan House, her BFF goes missing. Seems
someone doesn’t want Caroline sticking her non-magical nose where
it most certainly does not belong. Determined to prove herself,
Caroline uncovers a plot to destroy her new hometown.
Undeterred, Caroline can’t give up.
But what’s a human without magical powers to do? Caroline better
figure it out fast, before she loses everything she has ever loved
and the whispers she’s heard all her life prove true: Caroline is a
useless superfreak.
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***EXCERPT***
“Diana,
you’re my hero,” I said.
She
stopped and pretended to flex a muscle, flashing a strained smile. “I
know.” Taking a few more steps, the beam of light revealed a round
iron grate that had been moved to the side. A set of rough stone
steps, mossy and damp, marched down into the darkness. “Ah. This is
it.”
“You
guys do this often?” Kevin asked.
“Only
on the slow days,” I replied.
I
thought I heard a choked snort, but he might have just coughed.
We
filed into the hole, Leo in the lead with the flashlight, hands
fisted in each other’s shirts like some kind of weird caterpillar.
My free hand grazed the wall and I yelped, the feeling of squishy
earth and something that crawled made me shiver. Kevin was behind me
and laughed. “You storm into the lair of a kidnapper without a
qualm and scream at a little slime?”
“It
wasn’t a scream. More like a squeak.”
“Whatever.”
Diana
shushed us from behind me, her hands twisting into the back of my
shirt.
I’m
not sure how long we were really in there, but it felt like forever.
Sweat beaded on my upper lip as we shuffled through, and I tried not
to feel like we were being buried alive. Tight spaces had never
bothered me before, but I wasn’t prepared for this. Or the horrible
images my mind kept conjuring of what lay in wait at the other end.
What
we got wasn’t quite what we expected.
*************
ABOUT VANESSA BARGER
Vanessa Barger was born in West
Virginia, and through several moves ended up spending the majority of
her life in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is a graduate of George
Mason University and Old Dominion University, and has degrees in
Graphic Design, a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, and a
Masters in Technology Education. She has had articles published in
Altered Arts Magazine, has had some artwork displayed in galleries in
Ohio and online, and currently teaches engineering, practical
physics, drafting and other technological things to high school
students in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. She is a member of
the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators),
the Virginia Writer’s Club, and the Hampton Roads Writers. When not
writing or teaching, she’s a bookaholic, movie fanatic, and loves
to travel. She is married to a fabulous man, and has one cat, who
believes Vanessa lives only to open cat food cans, and can often be
found baking when she should be editing.Giveaway Information: Contest ends October 31, 2015
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