The Latchkey Kids
What would you do if you came home from school alone and heard noises in the basement?
Five kids, twelve and thirteen years old and on their own before and after school, each faces their own struggle. A broken home, illness, crushes, bullying, depression, absent parents, suicidal thoughts, broken friendships, and fears of being only a kid and home alone.
There is also the strange noises houses make when they are quiet and you are alone, particularly the noises in the basement. Something is down there.
Madison, Andrew, Kylie, Anna, and Dylan are brought together by circumstances that feel overwhelmingly out of their control. The temptation of exploring an old abandoned brick building, loneliness, and fleeing an attempted abduction, each is drawn to the old abandoned building for different reasons.
There, they will fight for their lives, where the monsters in the basement nest.
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There is something about basements that always seems just a little creepy, that cave-like place where sunlight doesn’t quite reach.
Andrew feels it, although he would never admit to anyone he is scared of the basement.
Madison, new to being a latchkey kid, even admits she is scared of the dark . . . to herself. Her biggest fear is losing her key.
Kylie is too busy being afraid to think about being scared of the basement. She has bigger problems in her life; the Mean Team tormenting her and making her life miserable, and her dad.
Dylan is afraid of being home alone; ever since his house was broken into, almost burned, and dog beaten. He won’t even admit to himself the basement makes him nervous.
Anna, tough and impervious to rules Anna, would tell you nothing scares her. Spiders do. There are spiders in the basement.
There are other things in the basement too.
While the five kids struggle through their own problems, trying to survive their final years before high school, they become unlikely friends.
They are each drawn to the abandoned factory by their own circumstances, pulled together into something bigger than themselves. There they will discover the noises in the basement are real. They will discover the monsters where they nest.
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