What’s stranger than strange? The happenings on Strange Street, that’s what.

One evening, a blue light appeared on Cedar Street, hovering in the air before vanishing without a trace. And over the years, the incident became less an incident and more an urban legend. But the one thing that wasn’t forgotten is the substance known as Component G.

“Nobody calls it Component G around here, though. That’s an insider tip: Call it ‘glow’.””

I’m halfway through this awesome story and am absolutely loving the characters! The mystery is unfolding with delicious tension and I honestly have no idea what’s going to happen next. What I can say, is this: If you’ve been binge watching Stranger Things on Netflix, waiting for your favorite pre-teens and their otherworld shenanigans to return, you need this book!

While I finish this glowing ride, take a look at this excerpt.

“Hey!” called Avery. “Slow down, okay?”

Dani didn’t slow down. She wrapped her legs around the branch, hoisting herself and, without pause, throwing her hands out to catch the next branch up.

One of her hands did not catch.

It slipped free, upsetting Dani’s balance and sending her hurtling downward.

What happened next happened very quickly. Lola raised her hands to her mouth. Bastian shouted at Dani’s descent. And Avery thought, No, she can’t hit the ground.

The way Dani had thrown out her arms, the way she had twisted her back—Avery couldn’t bear to watch the impact. Stubbornly she kept thinking it: Dani can’t hit the ground, she can’t, she can’t, she won’t.

That’s when something inside Avery began to burn. It was a sensation she’d first felt at her old school in LA. It was the heat between her stomach and her heart that burned every time she skated downhill on a curve. She felt the blue light’s energy, and suddenly she saw it, pulsing out of her. It washed around Avery, poured over the branches like water, rushed under Dani’s back and cradled her in its arms.

Then, in a snap, everything was fast and loud again.

Thank you Rockstar Book Tours and Disney-Hyperion Books for including me on this blog tour and sending me a review copy.

AVERY MILLER is looking for a fresh start, away from all the bomb sirens and talk of war in Los Angeles. She expects to find a haven in Callaway, Texas, where the cool new substance “glow” was first discovered. What she doesn’t count on is making friends with glowboard skaters Dani, Bastian, and Lola, aka the Sardines. . . .

DANI HIRSCH, captain of the Sardines, knows for a fact they’re the best glowboarding team in Texas—if only they could prove it. Nothing will distract Dani from leading the team to victory at this summer’s big race. Not even food explosions in the school cafeteria, or a mysterious midnight message, or secretive government workers in Callaway. . . .

BASTIAN GIL is sick of the bullies who tease him for being a Sardine, for being different. Sure, he and his twin sister, Lola, can share thoughts. That’s just twin telepathy, though—nothing too weird, right? But when Bastian finds he can do even stranger things, he starts to wonder if maybe he really is different from the other kids at school. . . .

LOLA GIL wants life to go back to normal, to a time before big glowboard races and government investigations. But the more the Sardines discover about themselves—like how they can share thoughts and move objects with their minds—the more Lola begins to fear there was never anything normal about her. . . .

When the Sardines receive an ominous, otherworldly message, they must decide if they’ll use their newfound powers to stop an impending disaster—one that could have more to do with the war, their bullies, and glowboarding than they can possibly imagine.

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K.E. Ormsbee writes books, cooks food, & records podcasts in Austin, TX. She is the author of the WATER AND THE WILD fantasy trilogy (Chronicle Books and Gumption Press), folk mystery THE HOUSE IN POPLAR WOOD (Chronicle Books), and the upcoming sci-fi adventure MIDNIGHT ON STRANGE STREET (Disney-Hyperion, January 2020).

She also writes Young Adult novels as Kathryn Ormsbee: LUCKY FEW, TASH HEARTS TOLSTOY, and THE GREAT UNKNOWABLE END (Simon & Schuster).

K.E. Ormsbee likes clothes from the 60s, music from the 70s, and movies from the 80s. She is from the 90s. You can visit her online at keormsbee.com or follow her on Twitter & Instagram @kathsby.

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3 winners will receive a finished copy of MIDNIGHT ON STRANGE STREET, US Only

Be sure to check out the rest of the tour for excerpts, more reviews, and of course, more chances to win!

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

1/20/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
1/20/2020	BookHounds Ya	Excerpt
1/21/2020	For the Love of KidLit	Excerpt
1/21/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review
1/22/2020	Jazzy Book Reviews	Excerpt
1/22/2020	Trapped Inside Stories	Review
1/23/2020	Descendant of Poseidon Reads	Review
1/23/2020	Books,Dreams,Life	Excerpt
1/24/2020	Fazila’s Book Review Corner	Excerpt
1/24/2020	fictitious.fox	Review

Week Two:

1/27/2020	Savings in Seconds	Review
1/27/2020	Precious books world	Review
1/28/2020	Little Red Reads	Review
1/28/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
1/29/2020	Ficticiouswonderland	Review
1/29/2020	Books and Zebras	Review
1/30/2020	jrsbookreviews	Review
1/30/2020	Jena Brown Writes	Review
1/31/2020	Eli to the nth	Review
1/31/2020	Two Points of Interest	Review