The Absence of Sparrows

Stranger Things meets The Stand in this haunting coming-of-age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt—and the boy who believes that his town's missing sparrows can save his family.

In the small town of Griever's Mill, eleven-year-old Ben Cameron is expecting to finish off his summer of relaxing and bird-watching without a hitch. But everything goes wrong when dark clouds roll in.

Old Man Crandall is the first to change—human one minute and a glass statue the next. Soon it's...