Gingerman

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL WHERE CHRISTMAS IS MANDATORY.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Twelve-year-old Chris Blizzard thinks he's hit the jackpot. He scored a last-minute invite to the Institute of Creative Mind an elite mountain school that runs on snow secrets and year-round Christmas cheer. Candy cane chandeliers. Creativity as currency. It's the kind of place where even detention smells like nutmeg.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But underneath the cheer something is seriously off.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Failure isn't just punished. It's erased. Cameras watch everything. Students vanish without explanation. And at the top of it all is Lord Kris Pelznickel a reclusive founder who hasn't been seen in years but still manages to breathe down everyone's neck. Rumor says he's not looking for grades. He's hunting for talent.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Chris scrambles to keep up with his gifted classmates he stumbles on a hidden message buried in his textbooks. Decorations start glitching students start disappearing. Then winter shows up early. The campus walls close in. And the line between student and toy starts to blur.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now Chris has to unravel the Toymaker's legacy before he becomes just another cog in the Christmas machine.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gingerman: In Search of the Toymaker</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a darkly whimsical mash-up of holiday fantasy boarding school mystery and a pinch of dystopia. Perfect for fans of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coraline</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Series of Unfortunate Events</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> it's a cautionary Christmas tale about creativity conformity and the price of fitting in.</span></p>