Wax

About this book

Paraffin Vermont is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There seventeen-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later shes shocked when one of the figuresa teenage boy who doesnt seem to know what he isjumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory but before she can a fire destroys the mysterious workshop. With the help of the wax boy who answers to the name Dud Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Along the way she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a little . . . waxy. Can they extinguish the evil plot?