A new young adult horror novel from Ridley High School Alum Diana Rodriguez Wallach, “Small Town Monsters,” has been released in time for the Halloween season and Hispanic Heritage Month, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Daily Times.

 It’s Rodriguez Wallach’s seventh teen novel and her first horror novel.

 “I loved spooky stories growing up. I remember taking out every Christopher Pike and R.L. Stine book from the Ridley Library,” says the Ridley High alum.

Small Town Monsters is described as The Conjuring meets The Vow.

The book features two multicultural main characters, Maxwell Oliver and Vera Martinez, living in a New England town plagued by tragedy.

In the story, Vera and Maxwell have to save his demonologist mother and the entire town from a cult that worships death.

 “I’m Polish and Puerto Rican, and growing up, I never read a book featuring a character like me. So I intentionally made both Max and Ver multicultural, because I think that’s something a lot of teens can relate to,” says the author.

Rodriguez Wallach is a 1996 graduate of Ridley High School who grew up in Folsom and Swarthmore. She now lives in Villanova.

Read more at the Daily Times about author Diana Rodriguez Wallach.

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