num_pages: 311
description: Fed up with her wild behavior sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teach Lex the family business.She quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak a town populated by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. But Lex can't stop her desire for justice  or is it vengeance?  whenever she encounters a murder victim craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again.Will she ditch Croak and go rogue with her reaper skills?
language: English
title: Croak
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt