Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

by Katherine Arden

Wherever you go in this big, gorgeous, hideous world, there is a ghost story waiting for you.

Coco didn’t cry because she was weak. Coco cried because she felt things.

“How is she the clumsiest person ever on the ground, yet a squirrel when she’s climbing?” muttered Ollie. Brian grinned. “You’re kind of grumpy most of the time, but when things get bad, you’re the bravest. People can surprise you, Ollie-pop.”

“You’re the smiling man,” said Ollie slowly. She could barely believe it. “I thought—” She’d

imagined a skull smile, a pumpkin-head smile. A scarecrow smile. She’d not imagined a kind smile, the sort that would make a scared kid not be scared anymore.