But this doesn’t mean that this is an immature book. The book is a young adult novel, which means that intent is a young audience. Yes, this is a book recommended by Clive Barker, so, there it got my attention. What made me place the book on my wishlist? Clive Barker. This would be a huge selling claim, but I received the book as a Christmas present some months before the awards. HarperTeen published Clown in a Corfield in 2020 and in 2021 won the Bram Stoker Award for Young Fiction Novel. Bram Stoker Award Winner Adam Cesare won the Stoker Award for Young Fiction Novel The kids plan a party in a barn outside the town, what they don’t know is that Frendo The Clown is attending too. This has caused several problems, like the burning of the factory and Cole’s sister’s death… and will cause many more. On her first day at school Quinn gets expelled from biology class for giggling when the teacher loses his temper against Cole and his friends, this leads her to befriend the local group of kids.Ĭole and his friends seem to be more interested in their Youtube Channel than in school or the problems of the town. The town has been struggling since the syrup factory closed its doors and its later burning caused by Cole Hill. Quinn and her father moved searching a fresh start after the death of her mother. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.Clown in a Cornfield starts when Quinn Maybrook and her father move from Philadelphia to the little town of Kettle Springs, Missouri. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start.
Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel In Adam Cesare’s terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress-that just may cost her life.
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