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Small Spaces
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Small Spaces, published in 2018, is the first book in the middle-grade Small Spaces Quartet Series by author Katherine Arden. Arden was previously best known for her adult historical fantasy series, The Winternight Trilogy, which became a New York Times bestseller. The Small Spaces series is her initial foray into middle-grade fiction.
The first novel in the series made multiple lists for Best Middle-Grade Book of the Year in 2018, including Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Amazon, and the Chicago Public Library. Subsequent titles in the quartet include Dead Voices (2019), Dark Waters (2021), and Empty Smiles (2022). Small Spaces is categorized as Children’s Fantasy & Supernatural Mystery Books and Children’s Scary Stories. This study guide and page citations refer to the book’s Kindle edition.
The novel is set in the small upstate Vermont town of East Evansburg in an unspecified contemporary year. The season is autumn, and the principal events in the novel occur a few days before Halloween, but there is a short concluding chapter that takes place a month later, in early December. The author uses a limited third-person narrative technique. Events are described from the perspective of an 11-year-old sixth grader named Unlock all 47 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
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