Maggie the Dread (A Novel) by Austin Gilkeson - ISBN: 9781499817058
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Boy frees vampire goddess; together they must save reality from destruction.
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Maggie the Dread (A Novel)

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    208 pages

  • Release Date

    11 August 2026

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Summary

The end is nigh. Bring snacks!

When Sebastian accidentally releases a long-imprisoned vampire-goddess after a rough day at school, he sets off a chain of events that will result in the destruction of reality as he knows it, unless he can find a way to stop it.

“A wonderful romp with a fresh premise.” -School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW

Seventh-grader Sebastian Onizuka is having a terrible Friday. He overslept after making a video game, spilled orange juice on his p…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781499817058
ISBN-10:1499817053
Author:Austin Gilkeson
Publisher:Little Bee Books Inc.
Imprint:Little Bee Books Inc.
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:11 August 2026
Weight:256g
Dimensions:210mm x 140mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

Gilkeson’s debut is a wonderful romp with a fresh premise. * School Library Journal *A remarkably upbeat tale of connecting while trying to prevent apocalypse. * Publisher’s Weekly *

About The Author

Austin Gilkeson

Austin Gilkeson writes stories for children and essays for people of all ages.

He has written for The New York Review of Books, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Foreign Policy, Vulture, Catapult, Tor.com, Tor Nightfire, The Toast, The Rumpus, Points in Case, Unbound Worlds, and the Chicago Reader online. His essays also appear in the anthologies Body Language (Catapult, 2022), Inaka: Portraits of Life in Rural Japan (Camphor Press, 2020), and Down the Block: An Anthology of City Life (Metrolingua, 2009).

Austin grew up in the Carolinas and is a graduate of William & Mary and the University of Chicago. He spent two years on the Japanese island of Tsushima, sixteen years in Chicago, and now lives with his wife and son outside Houston where he works as an English teacher.

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