Do Not Fall Asleep Here

Four beds. One observation window. Something in the wires is hungry for dreams.

Elias Fontaine keeps waking up in places he never walked to. The laundry room in the basement. The bathtub, with his shoes on. The roof of his building - eleven stories up, behind a door chained shut from the other side. He is twelve years old, he is a sleepwalker, and he is running out of places that feel safe to close his eyes.

So when his mom signs him up for a sleep study at Wexler Children's Clinic, Elias tells himself it's good news. Doctors. Monitors. A room with walls and a door that locks. His best friend Kimani Wright signs up too, just to keep an eye on him, because that's what Kimani does.

Then the electrode caps go on. And the dreams start going missing.

Every morning, another kid wakes up hollow - blinking, quiet, remembering nothing at all. Every night, something moves inside the walls. Something tall and bone-white, knotted together out of tangled wire, wearing the faces of sleeping children like masks it borrowed and never gave back.

It's building a collection. And it is almost finished.

Elias has exactly one night to stay awake. One night to figure out what lives in the wiring, why it wants what's inside their heads, and how to unplug it before the last empty spot in its collection gets his name on it.

Perfect for readers who love:

• A hero with a real problem - Elias can't trust his own feet at night
• A best friend who refuses to leave, no matter how bad it gets
• A monster made of wires that wears a different face every night
• Four kids, one locked hallway, and a nurse who never, ever blinks
• Short punchy chapters with a cliffhanger every few pages
• An ending with one last chill that lands after the lights go out

Great for ages 8-12, grades 3-6, and especially for reluctant readers who say they hate books - until somebody hands them one that's actually scary. Spooky-fun, fast-moving, and safe for the school library: creepy atmosphere and monster chills, no gore, no bad language.

Do Not Fall Asleep Here is Book 19 in the Creep Street series. Every book is a complete standalone story, so you can start anywhere on the street - but be warned. Nobody visits Creep Street just once.

Turn off the monitor. Stay awake. Whatever you do, do not fall asleep here.