2023 Rhode Island Middle School Award Winner
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
Sixth grader Justin's best friend, Zee, has been missing for over a year and
mysteriously returns acting very strange. At a party for Zee, his friends play
hide-and-seek but then weird things happen, like a mysterious mark on the
player's wrists which leads to their disappearance. An evil seeker pulls the
friends into a world where their worst fears come to life. Zee managed to
escape, can his friends escape too?