Erin Entrada Kelly - The Last Resort!

Master storyteller and our author friend, Erin Entrada Kelly, is back with yet another FANTASTIC middle grade book and we could not be more excited to hear her talk all about it when she visits us on September 4th! Come on out to hear about this mysterious tale of a ghostly inn and the journey in and out of the spirit realm! See below for more details and be sure to save your spot for a super fun night!

Tickets:

Admission: $0 This free ticket admits one to our event, but does not include a book

Admission + Book: $17.99 This ticket admits one to our event and includes a copy of The Last Resort to be picked up and signed at the event

Please note that you must purchase a copy of The Last Resort from Little Shop in order to enter the signing line. Eventbrite, website, and in person purchases all count!

About the Book:

Twelve-year-old Lila has two goals for the summer:

1. Win back the friends who ditched her for being "too dramatic"

2. Stop being so dramatic

But then Lila's estranged Grandpa Clem dies, throwing a wrench in her plans. Now she'll have to spend the summer in Ohio while her parents decide what to do with Grandpa Clem's creepy Victorian Inn. It's supremely unfair. How can she show off the "new and improved" Lila from so far away?

Even worse, strange things keep happening. En route to Ohio, the family gets into a scary car accident. No one's hurt, but the remainder of the trip is... odd. At every rest stop, Lila sees people in weird old-fashioned clothes. People no one else can see or hear...

Lila convinces herself it's just her overactive imagination until the day of the funeral when she spots an old man sitting in her grandfather's favorite chair. She does a double take -- it's him, Grandpa Clem. He tells Lila that he didn't die of a heart attack: he was murdered. Possibly by someone who wants to control the inn. Because it's not a normal bed & breakfast: it's a portal between the land of the living and the realm of the dead. A hotel for ghosts passing onto the afterlife.

With the help of her skeptical brother, Caleb, and their new ghost-obsessed neighbor, Teddy, Lila -- the girl who's vowed to be less dramatic -- must uncover her grandfather's killer AND stop the evil spirits desperate to make their way back into the human world.

Enter the world of The Last Resort! Ghosts from the story will emerge from the pages of the book, allowing readers to talk to spirits from the past and help solve the mystery!

About the Author:

Erin Entrada Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Universe, which won the 2018 Newbery Medal; The First State of Being, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the 2025 Newbery Medal, and We Dream of Space, a 2021 Newbery Honor Book. She lives in Delaware.

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