Eleven-year-old Sofia Mendoza is a gamer, not a camper. She should be at home building landscapes and fighting monsters in Sandbox, not deep in the forest with six other kids, who might as well be playing her favorite game in tutorial mode.
Even worse, there’s something off about this summer camp. There are creepy, mechanical vultures, cloaked NPC figures, and the only adult is Monarch, a grim woman in combat boots.
And then the game of elimination begins.
Sofia may be caught in the clutches of Camp Forestjaw, but she’ll do anything to survive. Anything. The problem is, in Forestjaw, everything you’ve ever done—no matter how long ago—comes back to you . . .
- Junior Library Guild selection
- July/August 2026 Indie Next pick
- Indigo’s Best of the Month pick
- Kobo CA’s Best of the Month in Children’s Literature
