The Lookshop Explorers: Into the Tangles

Beneath the library in a forgotten mountain town sleeps a machine that drops you into the world’s greatest stories—and lately, not everyone is coming back.

Adam Spinner rates the worst moments of his life. He’s about to get a new number one.

Adam’s town sits at the foot of a mountain with a bad reputation. Up the broken old road lies the ghost town: a grand ruined hotel, an empty Main Street, and a strange octagonal library the kids call the Lookshop—somehow still open, still stacked to its stained glass skylight with books, and still run by the mysterious Ms. McKelly.

Adam and his club, the Worms, practically live there. But when two kids from school vanish on the mountain, the Worms uncover the secret every grown-up missed: The children who disappeared here before—all twenty-seven of them—belonged to one club. Theirs. Then a storm drives Adam up the mountain alone, and he sees exactly what the Lookshop has been hiding, and what it can do.

Soon Adam, wisecracking Nick, and by-the-book Marissa are somewhere no rescue party has ever gone: inside the greatest stories ever told. And the stories are in trouble. A crackling menace called the Tangles is unraveling the classics thread by thread—and it arrived with something the missing twins carried in their pockets. Now flying monkeys, Sherlock Holmes, and a ship full of children who never grew up are counting on three kids from Brewster Falls. Because back home, a wrecking ball swings for the library at midnight—and it’s their only way out of the story.

They went in on a pledge. They’ll come home by their most sacred rule: No Worm left behind.