# Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds: The First Official Stranger Things Novel - Paperback

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by **Gwenda Bond** (Author)

****_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER - If you think you know the truth behind Dr. Brenner's experiments at Hawkins Laboratory, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in the first official _Stranger Things_ novel--"the prequel story that fans have been waiting for" (_Kirkus Reviews_).**  
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It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the protests in Washington.

But the world is changing, and Terry isn't content to watch. When word gets around about an important government experiment in the small town of Hawkins, she signs on as a test subject for the project, code-named MKULTRA. The remote lab, deep in the woods, contains a mystery Terry is determined to uncover.

Behind the walls of Hawkins National Laboratory--and the piercing gaze of its director, Dr. Martin Brenner--lurks a conspiracy greater than Terry could have ever imagined. To face it, she'll need the help of her fellow test subjects.

Amid the rising tensions of the new decade, Terry Ives and Martin Brenner have begun a different kind of war--one where the human mind is the battlefield.

### Author Biography

**Gwenda Bond** writes YA and children's fiction, among other things. Her novels include the Lois Lane series (_Fallout, Double Down, Triple Threat_), which brings the iconic comic book character front and center, and the Cirque American series (_Girl on a Wire, Girl Over Paris, Girl in the Shadows_), about daredevil heroines who discover magic and mystery lurking under the big top. She and her husband, Christopher Rowe, also co-write a middle-grade series, The Supernormal Sleuthing Service. Bond's nonfiction writing has appeared in the _Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Locus,_ and many other publications. She has an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband and their unruly pets. There are rumors she escaped from a screwball comedy, and she might have a journalism degree because of her childhood love of Lois Lane.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** October 08, 2019

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 4.6

**Point Value:** 12

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Action & Adventure, Books, Fiction, Horror, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Thrillers

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