Lost Girls of Hollow Lake

Gr 10 Up–A captivating story about the girls who returned from Hollow Lake National Park’s Dead Refuge Island. Eight girls on a school trip decide to adventure to the island, which no one can see, and no one has ever returned from. Only five return, but the island has haunted each girl from the moment they were saved. When the girls reintegrate into society, friends and teachers who were affiliated with the missing ones are killed. No one knows who this serial killer may be, but all hands are pointing to Evie. Eighteen-year-old Evie shares her perspective of the events, starting from the present day and going back to her time on the island, explaining how she survived, but remains haunted. Navigating the love for their newfound freedom becomes harder for all the girls than fighting on the island for their survival was. Faubion’s (The Sun and the Moon) prose captivates readers from start to finish; each turn of the page is surprising as Evie processes what happens to her on the island, and the other surviving girls manage their own grief, anger, sadness, and fear. This story is best suited for older readers, since it contains graphic details about gore as well as harsh and explicit language. Evie is white, and her love interest, Sunny, is Asian American.