The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall

在本書中，時間回到1960年代的夏令營。Bee 因母親赴紐約工作，被送往營地度夏。她不擅社交，不會划獨木舟，也害怕夜裡的森林。更詭異的是，她總在遠方聽見若有似無的音樂，像從幽暗深處飄來。直到古怪卻自信的 Zippy 出現，兩人發現「Hawks」小屋的高年級女孩夜夜外出，卻總在查房時安然躺在床上。

隨著調查展開，神祕男孩、沉默的營地主人與鬧鬼傳聞交織成層層謎團。Charis Cotter 以從容筆調鋪陳氛圍，營造既陰森又溫柔的成長故事。《Kirkus Reviews》與《Publishers Weekly》給予星級好評，並入選 Canadian Children’s Book Centre 2025 秋季推薦。這是一部關於友情、勇氣與夏夜祕密的中階小說。

Bee's mom has a job in New York City for the summer, so Bee is being sent to summer camp. She's not excited about it. Being around other people is hard for her, plus she knows nothing about campfires, she's not a good swimmer and she's never even been in a canoe.

When she first arrives, things go pretty much as she expected. The other girls either make fun of her or ignore her, and the woods surrounding the camp give her the creeps: she keeps hearing elusive music coming from somewhere in the distance, and there's something unearthly about it.

But then Zippy comes on the scene -- an oddball like Bee, but with a lot more confidence and hard-won knowledge gleaned from many summers spent at this exact camp. And most importantly, Zippy has also discovered mysterious behavior going on at the camp: the older girls from the Hawks cabin are sneaking out to do . . . something. They're always exhausted, and their flashlight batteries are running out at an alarming rate. But their counselors are never woken up by girls sneaking out, no one on staff doing nightly rounds ever sees them outside the cabin, and even when they start doing a bed check at night, the girls all seem to be in their bunks.

Zippy and Bee are on the case, and with the help of an unlikely ally, they try to figure out what the Hawks are up to. But they soon discover there's more going on than just the usual summer-camp hijinks. How are the Hawks getting out at night? What is the deal with the (very cute) mysterious boy who seems to be working with the groundskeeper? Where is the distant music coming from? And what does the reclusive camp founder know about all of it?