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Cody Seltzer and the Creeping Shadows

By Lassiter Williams

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Ar Khurram

Reviewed on Apr 7, 2023

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Cody Seltzer and the Creeping Shadows is an inspiring and instructive tale for kids that emphasises the importance of bravery and tenacity.

Synopsis

All 11-year-old Cody Seltzer wants is to be normal. But his tattooed. skate-board-riding, movie-quoting parents have other ideas. In fact, his entire city neighborhood likes to fly the freak flag extra high. Until one day Cody discovers something terrifying: creeping shadows are making bad things happen all over his neighborhood – vandalized graffiti art, uprooted squatters’ gardens, and disrupted neighborhood parties. All of the adults seem deeply distracted by a fun video game challenge while their neighbors are quietly selling out and leaving. Cody fears he is the only one who can see the shadows, so it is up to him to save his neighborhood, his friends and his family, but he must overcome his fears to join forces with the weirdest of the weird in stopping the craziness in his freaky neighborhood.

Cody Seltzer and the Creeping Shadows distinguishes apart from other novels aimed at youngsters because it has an interesting plot and is able to keep the attention of the kind of readers it is aimed at for an extended period of time. Throughout the course of the story, we follow Cody Seltzer, an adventurous young boy who sets out on a trip to solve the mystery of the shadows that have appeared in his village.


Cody Seltzer and his friends get an introduction to the world created by Lassiter Williams, which highlights the depths and complexities of this world. Every single one of the characters has a one-of-a-kind attitude as well as a variety of interesting eccentricities, both of which contribute to the impression that they are real people. Readers will be compelled to keep turning the pages until they reach the conclusion of the story because it is filled with surprising twists, exciting events, and tense situations.


Children will not only enjoy the story of Cody Seltzer and the Creeping Shadows because it is a good read, but they will also learn important lessons about life from the book. The book teaches youngsters how to get over their anxieties, how to be open to new experiences, and how to collaborate with their peers to achieve their goals. The author does a fantastic job of making these concepts interesting and easy to understand for the young readers who are the target demographic for this book.


Reading Cody Seltzer and the Creeping Shadows will provide children of all ages with a reading experience that is simultaneously entertaining and instructive. It is an engaging tale about an adventure that has protagonists that are simple to believe in, a plot that satisfies, and some essential life lessons that may be picked up along the way. This is the kind of book that should be read by young readers because it will motivate them to have the bravery to pursue their own curiosities and to follow their own passions.

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Ar Khurram

I am an author and reader I read a lot so far I have read around 40 books in one year that my personal best

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