In this gripping mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one-and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.Ī former teacher, Blue Balliett’s beloved children’s books tackle broad themes and big ideas involving art, history, and preservation. Things tend to disappear when ghosts are around. But the kids can’t be sure how the ghosts are going to act. The ghosts have chosen a few kids to save the island against those who would it harm. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket.
Please join us for a reading and signing with New York Times bestselling and award-winning children's book author Blue Balliett featuring her new book, OUT OF THE WILD NIGHT, an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past … and the ghosts who must help with the present. (Mar.I love to hand over big, controversial ideas to kids – ideas that might make a person of any age stop and wonder.” But many readers may gloss over the housing issues to focus on the shivery exploits of the marauding ghosts and a twisty finale that adds poignancy. Balliett, a former island resident, writes lovingly about its rich history and unequivocally sides with the preservationists (“Some say Nantucket has the greatest number of pre-1850 houses of any residential community in this country,” notes one character). Into this conflict enters an ethnically diverse gaggle of local kids who feel (oddly) compelled to stop the renovations with a rash of “accidents” on construction sites. The second is ghosts (including Mary Chase, who narrates despite being dead for a century), who don’t want the homes they’ve haunted for years renovated by rapacious contractors who swap out weather-beaten siding for Viking stoves and marble flooring. One is the clash between a chronic shortage of affordable housing and wealthy outsiders buying up rickety homes that once belonged to lobstermen and sea captains. Two interrelated problems have raised tensions on Nantucket, a normally serene island off the Massachusetts coast.
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