The Curse on Spectacle Key
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Frank Fernandezâs family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family movesâa lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. So when his parents announce theyâre moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a lighthouseâthis time for good!âFrank is thrilled.
But Spectacle Key isnât the perfect forever home they'd imagined. The lighthouse is falling apart. There are knocks on the doorâbut no one is thereâand mysterious sighs and sniffles from nowhere. Thereâs even a creepy doll that seems to move on its own. Could Spectacle Key be haunted?
Then one day while exploring, Frank meets a girl in old-fashioned clothes, with no memory of who she is. What she does know, though, is that the island is under a curseâand she needs Frankâs help to figure out how to lift it. But what if learning the truth about Spectacle Key means losing the first real friend heâs ever had?
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Chantel Acevedo was born in Miami to Cuban parents. She is the acclaimed author of the Muse Squad middle grade series, as well as several adult novels, including The Distant Marvels, which was a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and she is also a professor of English at the University of Miami, where she directs the MFA program. Chantel lives with her personal Muse Squad, aka her family, in Florida. You can visit her online at www.chantelacevedo.com.
