The Creature in The Forbidden Forest by Taylor Fletcher (good books to read for 12 year olds TXT) 📕

In a village called Vougue a young boy, son of the village leader, named Samual but called sam by friends heads into the forbidden forest. In the forest sam looks for the childern who have gone off in the night and have never been seen after that. Many in the village claim that there is a creature of the night that has been taking the bad children away because they have not been so good. Others say its a with made of jealousy and spite against the blacksmith.