Bad Things Happened Here

Bad Things Happened Here - Hardcover

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Bad Things Happened Here - Hardcover

Bad Things Happened Here - Hardcover

by Moniza Hossain
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by Moniza Hossain (Author)

For fans of R.L. Stine, this supernatural horror follows twelve-year-old Sam to his unsettling family home in Singapore, where his journey to unearth details of his dead mother's life entangles him in a deadly decades-old mystery.

Lonely twelve-year-old Sam Wells has never known his mother. So when his maternal grandmother calls with a plane ticket to Singapore, he hopes the trip will give him the answers he's been looking for. But his imposing family home isn't what he expected. His grandmother is a stranger. Spiders crawl over impassible mounds of hoarded mementos. The house is such a labyrinth that Sam can barely make his way through the boxes, let alone find out anything about his mom.

Until he meets her ghost, frozen in time at age twelve.

Something terrible happened when Priya Malhotra was just a schoolgirl in Singapore. Something twisted enough to keep her trapped. Something that might be happening again. Children are going missing as they did decades before in Sam's eerily unsettling neighborhood . . . and the closer Sam gets to the terrifying truth that lurks within the haunted, abandoned factory where the original crimes occurred, the more it seems that Sam will be the next to disappear.

To save himself, he'll have to untangle the mystery. But if he does, will he lose his mom forever?

Author Biography

Moniza Hossain is a Singaporean author of Bengali descent who writes children's books inspired by her South Asian heritage. She has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the National University of Singapore, and a Masters in English Literature from King's College London. Her works include her debut picture book, Street Puppy Masjid Cat, and her sophomore picture book, Ritu In The Sun. She also writes books for middle grade readers. She has a short story in the award winning anthology Being Ace, and another in an anthology entitled The Beasts Beneath the Winds. She lives in Manchester with her husband.

Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.8 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2026
ISBN9780823462353
Author Moniza Hossain
PublisherHoliday House
GenreChildren
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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