DINOSAUR BOY author Cory Putman Oakes’s THE SECOND BEST HAUNTED HOTEL ON MERCER STREET, pitched as You’ve Got Mail meets The Haunted Mansion, in which two girls—one living, one a ghost—working at rival haunted hotels form an unlikely friendship, to Erica Finkel at Abrams Children’s, for publication in fall 2020, by Sarah LaPolla at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).