num_pages: 246
description: Get Out meets Danielle Vega in this YA horror where survival is not a guarantee.Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. Its hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again they dont interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful vengeful ghost he has plans for his afterlifeplans that include Jake. Suddenly everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival gameone Jake is not sure hes going to win.
language: English
title: The Taking of Jake Livingston
publisher: Putnam