Garden Ghoulies: The Savior of Faldoon

by Kevin A. Gould

Join Abraham Lincoln Horowitz on the adventure of a lifetime! Abe, a bullied kid from Buffalo, New York with an unsatisfying home life, looks forward every year to his summers in Chipper Hollow with his Grandma, and this summer is no different… until it is. He can hardly contain his excitement on the last day of school. Neither the constant thrashing by the school bullies or his long-time crush actually speaking to him can take his mind off of Chipper Hollow today! However, this particular summer, Abe finds out the hard way that Chipper Hollow holds more secrets than he ever knew, as he sets out on an adventure like no other under the forest floor to save a race of small subterranean creatures called the Ghaoultica, or as Abe calls them, Ghoulies. Teaming up with his new friends Joe, Lita, and Ozzie, Abe sets out to defend Faldoon and all the Ghoulies from certain doom at the hands of the evil Valdrick and the falcrin.

335 pages, Paperback

Published April 17, 2022

Reviews

[Shelby Lehman · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fun adventure! Would be a good read along for young elementary kids. Solid middle grade reader. Fun language read. Whimsical and triumphant.

[Megan Luke · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just finished Garden Ghoulies and would highly recommend it to your middle school-aged kids. The main character, Abe, is a sweet, bookish, bullied kid that discovers an entire world under a tree at his grandmother's house on summer vacation. Abe makes friends, has adventures, discovers inner strength and confidence, and grows up while helping the little creatures that live there.

The "voice" of the book is very much pre-teen/teenaged boy, and even the creatures have a way of speaking that reminds you of their "other-ness."