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Horn-Horn

Name: Horn-Horn
Rating: 4.61 (151 reviews)
Author: A.D.T. McLellan

A.D.T. McLellan February 1, 2017

4.61 151 Ratings

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Welcome to Horn-Horn! A small town in New York State, fully equipped with oddball residents, secrets around every corner, and more than one illegal alien (literally) lurking in the haunted woods… If you loved the style of Beetlejuice, Northern Exposure, Goosebumps, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Mean Girls, you will fall in love with Horn-Horn!

When teenage loner Cassie Gellar moves with her family to the seaside town of Horn-Horn, she finds herself at odds with the battling cliques at her new school.

There’s Eleanore Parker, Principal’s daughter and social butterfly. Then there’s Hayley and the ‘backseater’ misfits.

But there’s also Zag, a shackled little boy she finds hiding in the woods. Where is he from, and why does he have a woman on a moose chasing after him?

Cassie finds herself catapulted into a world of magic and danger, one where nothing is ever as it seems and nobody is to be trusted.

Full of intelligent comedy, fantasy and horror, the constantly evolving town of Horn-Horn proves that friendship and family can transcend even space and time itself.

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