The Grim Adventure

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Author
Piper CJ
Publisher
Walker Books
Genre
Children’s Fiction
Released
01 October, 2025
ISBN
9781760659318

The Grim Adventure

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Synopsis

A girl who’s trapped in another realm. Her school, full of the peculiarly magical. And a hunt for Death itself …

The month leading up to one’s thirteenth birthday can be exciting, but rarely does that thrill come in the form of a perilous chase. Nearly thirteen-year-old Rosemary Thorpe is on the run from a wicked statue come-to-life as she fights to discover what’s happening with the fae courts. She can see the future … and right now, it’s looking grim.

Out of nowhere, legions of mushrooms threaten to overwhelm Fern’s School for Wayward Fae. Someone tries to drown all the plants in the greenhouse. And as Rosemary searches for answers, it becomes clearer that something sinister is after the students and their curious gifts … and it’s closer than she might think.

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Peculiar and Magical: Read an Extract from The Grim Adventure by Fern Forgettable

Review | Extract

8 October 2025

Peculiar and Magical: Read an Extract from The Grim Adventure by Fern Forgettable

Piper CJ
About the author

Piper CJ

Piper CJ, writing as Fern Forgettable, is the author of the bestselling fantasy series The Night and Its Moon, is a photographer, hobby linguist, and french-fry enthusiast. She has an M.A. in Folklore, and a B.A. in broadcasting, which she used in her former life as a morning show weather anchor and documentarian. She continues to use her degree not only as an author, but in her sensational platform educating others on cryptids, fae and lore. When she isn’t making TikToks. she’s writing fantasy very, very quickly.

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