BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20231026T213000Z DTEND:20231026T223000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Halloween Campfire Stories with Lindsay Currie and Wendy Parris DESCRIPTION:Join The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) on Thursday\, October 26 at 4:30 pm for Halloween Campfire Stories with middle-grade authors Lindsay Currie (It Found Us) and Wendy Parris (Field of Screams). Learn about the authors\, hear some spooky stories\, and partake in Halloween treats at this fun-filled spooktacular after-school event! Following the storytelling\, there will be a Q&A and both authors will be signing their works! These chilling thrillers are perfect for kids ages 9 to 13.\n\n \n\nTo register for the Halloween Campfire Stories\, please CLICK HERE. There's a $5 participation charge\, which is fully redeemable for merchandise in the store. This fee is payable at the door. We suggest you use your $5.00 gift card toward the purchase of It Found Us or Field of Screams! \n\n \n\n(If the $5.00 participation charge is an undue financial burden\, contact Robert at events@thebookstall.com. Scholarships are available.)\n\n \n\nMore About the Books: It Found Us follows an aspiring girl detective who must decode a series of ominous clues\, which may be tied to a century-old tragedy\, to find a missing teenager before it's too late! Twelve-year-old Hazel Woods has always had an unusual knack for sleuthing. Some may call it snooping\, but all she really wants is to solve mysteries around town. So\, when she not-so-accidentally overhears her brother Den planning to sneak into the cemetery at night for an epic game of hide-and-seek\, she decides to secretly tag along. From her hiding spot in the bushes\, she overhears that her brother's best friend\, Everett\, is missing. Hazel and Den are determined to find Everett before it's too late.\n\n \n\nField of Screams is a new pulse-pounding supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old Rebecca\, who has always wanted to hunt ghosts . . . until she meets one. Paranormal enthusiast Rebecca Graff isn't happy about being dragged to Iowa to spend the summer with family she barely knows. But when she tracks a ghostly presence to an abandoned farmhouse\, she starts to think the summer won't be a total lost cause! Soon she is in a race to piece together the puzzle and recover a family legacy before it is lost forever\, and a horrible tragedy repeats itself.\n\n \n\nMore About the Authors: Lindsay Currie lives in Chicago with her husband and three kids. She loves coffee\, Halloween\, Disney World and things that go bump in the night! She is the author of Scritch Scratch\, What Lives in the Woods\, The Girl in White\, and The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street. To learn more about her\, visit her website at lindsaycurrie.com\, and her TikTok at @lindsaycurrieauthor.\n\n \n\nWendy Parris grew up loving books and hoping\, but failing\, to see a ghost. After graduating from Northwestern University\, she acted in small Chicago storefront theaters\, performed improv comedy\, and worked in public relations. When not thinking up spooky tales\, she likes to kayak\, travel\, and go to movies. She lives with her family near Chicago in an old house that is probably not haunted. Field of Screams is her debut novel. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) on Thursday\, October 26 at 4:30 pm for \;Halloween Campfire Stories \;with middle-grade authors \;Lindsay Currie (It Found Us) \;and \;Wendy Parris (Field of Screams). Learn about the authors\, hear some \;spooky \;stories\, and partake in Halloween treats at this fun-filled spooktacular after-school event! Following the storytelling\, there will be a Q&\;A and both authors will be signing their works! \;These chilling thrillers are perfect for kids ages 9 to 13.
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\nTo register for the Halloween Campfire Stories\, please \;CLICK HERE. \;There'\;s a \;$5 participation charge\, which is fully redeemable for merchandise in the store. This fee is payable at the door. We suggest you use your $5.00 gift card toward the purchase of \;It Found Us \;or \;Field of Screams! \;
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\n(If the $5.00 participation charge is an undue financial burden\, contact Robert at events@thebookstall.com. \; Scholarships are available.)
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\nMore About the Books: \;It Found Us \;follows an aspiring girl detective who must decode a series of ominous clues\, which may be tied to a century-old tragedy\, to find a missing teenager before it&rsquo\;s too late! \;Twelve-year-old Hazel Woods has always had an unusual knack for sleuthing. Some may call it snooping\, but all she really wants is to solve mysteries around town. So\, when she not-so-accidentally overhears her brother Den planning to sneak into the cemetery at night for an epic game of hide-and-seek\, she decides to secretly tag along. From her hiding spot in the bushes\, she overhears that her brother&rsquo\;s best friend\, Everett\, is missing. \;Hazel and Den are determined to find Everett before it&rsquo\;s too late.
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\nField of Screams \;is a \;new pulse-pounding supernatural mystery about twelve-year-old Rebecca\, who has always wanted to hunt ghosts . . . until she meets one. \;Paranormal enthusiast Rebecca Graff isn&rsquo\;t happy about being dragged to Iowa to spend the summer with family she barely knows. But when she tracks a ghostly presence to an abandoned farmhouse\, she starts to think the summer won&rsquo\;t be a total lost cause! Soon she is in a race to piece together the puzzle and recover a family legacy before it is lost forever\, and a horrible tragedy repeats itself.
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\nMore About the Authors: \;Lindsay Currie \;lives in Chicago with her husband and three kids. She loves coffee\, Halloween\, Disney World and things that go bump in the night! She is the author of \;Scritch Scratch\, What Lives in the Woods\, The Girl in White\, \;and \;The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street. \;To learn more about her\, visit her website at \;lindsaycurrie.com\, and her TikTok at @lindsaycurrieauthor.
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\nWendy Parris \;grew up loving books and hoping\, but failing\, to see a ghost. After graduating from Northwestern University\, she acted in small Chicago storefront theaters\, performed improv comedy\, and worked in public relations. When not thinking up spooky tales\, she likes to kayak\, travel\, and go to movies. She lives with her family near Chicago in an old house that is \;probably \;not haunted. \;Field of Screams \;is her debut novel.
\n \; LOCATION:The Book Stall 811 Elm Street UID:e.259.15248 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260517T174607Z URL:https://chamber.wngchamber.com/events/details/halloween-campfire-stories-with-lindsay-currie-and-wendy-parris-15248 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR