Welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about a spooky door so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read Stone Words by Pam Conrad.

Joining us to discuss this vintage middle grade ghost story is K.L.

Hello.

Hello.

How's everyone doing?

Hanging in there.

It's warm.

But that's life, baby, in New England in the summer.

So true.

You know what, at least we are alive.

That is true, although we might be cooler if we were dead.

That's probably true.

Two things to say.

First of all, this is flashback summer. So if you are like, hey, I love stone words by Pam Conrad. I can't believe you would say it's worse. Don't worry. We're having our chill flashback summertime where we revisit childhood favorites. I will say this is K.L.'s favorite and I never heard this book before in my life and that is so valid.

You're people who have never heard of this book before. I picked it up at a scholastic book fair in like

1992 and I may be the only likely place to find this. Yep. There are a few light content warnings, I guess, for there are ghosts.

It is a middle grade book.

So the ghosts are children.

And ghosts of children do assume that there are dead children somewhere.

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