Two Bloggers One Book ~ Stage Fright by Wendy Parris

 So today we have a middle grade book as it's Middle Grade May and so Barb and I decided to read one together. After you see what I thought, go on over to Booker T's Farm and see what she thought. :) 

A new locked room scary story about twelve-year-old Avery, who plans a séance at a deserted theater to bond with her friends, only to realize they’re locked inside with someone—or something—else. This spine tingling read is perfect for fans of Katherine Arden and Lindsay Currie! When Avery returns to her hometown after moving away a year earlier, she is hoping to jump back into her friend group as if nothing’s changed. Unfortunately, new interests, secret crushes, and changing dynamics get in her way. To reunite her BFFs, she suggests they host a séance at an abandoned theater that was the site of a horrible tragedy. What starts as a fun outing, soon becomes a fight for survival after the group gets locked in…and discovers they’re not alone.

Avery has moved away and so she is not as close to her old friends as she was, but she is coming back to her hometown and is excited to hang out with her friends but even though it's only been a year everything seems a bit different. Her friends were all acting different, first Paige didn't even show up with the two boys to pick her up, but the two boys (I can't remember their names) didn't seem to be getting along like they use too. 

They used to have a detective club and so Avery thought it would be something to bring them back together and suggested doing a seance in an abandoned theater as a kid was killed there and they thought it might be interesting to see if they could see a ghost. 

Once they get in the theater they find more than they bargained for as not only is there a ghost but maybe something much more sinister and it wants to keep them all there! 

I thought this was a fun middle grade spooky books, not to spooky but has enough to give kids a fright. The characters learned a lot as even in that year they had grown a bit apart and started new hobbies, had other friends. The main character learned that she needed to also make new friends at her new home and she could still be friends with her old friends.

4 stars