For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes The Stalker from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. When Jennifer Lee Wilcox returns home from the beach, she finds that Stella Trax, her best friend’s mother, has just been murder...
Nightmareby~ Joan Lowry NixonRandon House Children’s BooksOriginally released on September 9, 2003. rereleased August 9, 2005. Nightmare Is a really great Young Adult Novel. The protagonist in this novel is Emily Wood, an underachiever at school who just wishes she could blend in and disappear...
A game of private detective turns deadly for an unlikely sleuth combo. How did Abbie Thompson end up a sidekick to Edna Merkel, Senior Citizen Pseudo-Sleuth? It all started when Abbie was so furious at her father for breaking up their family that she acted without thinking and was arrested for ma...
The book called The Weekend was Murder was about a sixteen year old girl named Liz, and she worked at a very expensive hotel called the Ridley's hotel. There was a roomer that was spreading saying that the hotel was being haunted by a ghost in room number nineteen!!! When the ghost was a male hum...
The HauntingJoan Lowry NixonAre you a young reader who loves mysteries about ghosts and haunted houses. Then you should read The Haunting, written by Joan Lowry Nixon. If you have ever read any books by Nixon, then you know she has been called the grande dame of young adult mysteries. With more t...
Talking To The Dead: Whispers From the Dead by Joan Lowery Nixon tells the story of a 16 soon to be 17 year old girl, Sarah. Sarah goes swimming at a lake with her friends and almost ends up dead. After her near death experience she starts to hear voices, voices no one else hears. She’s the ...
I have no idea how she does it but Joan lowery Nixon has successfully written ANOTHER short thrilling YA mystery! So far, all of her books that I've read have been unique, interesting and very entertaining. I love her as an author and can't believe she's come up with all of these different plots!...
Rosie can’t believe her good luck. Her grandmother, Glory, needs a last-minute roommate for a cruise to the Caribbean. Glory doesn’t really need a companion–she’s eager for Rosie to meet her friend’s grandson, Neil, a brainy guy full of facts about baseball. Once Rosie is aboard the ship, though,...
Three years have passed since the Kelly children moved out west from New York City. This part of the tale is placed in the hands of Peg, now 11 years old. Peg's desperate to be like her older siblings and longs to be treated like an adult. She is granted the chance when the mysterious Violet come...
Justin BrandonGoodreads Book ReviewB-210/6/15tThe book I read this quarter was called “A Family Apart” by Joan Lowery Nixon. This is a nonfiction book about a family who lives on the Orphan Train for most of their childhood life in 1856.tIn the book “A Family Apart” the author's purpose is to sho...
In A Place to Belong, the next story in the Orphan Train saga, Danny Kelly wishes his family were back together. Danny’s a mix of Meg and Mike to some degree but lacks the rich characterization of his siblings in the previous three books. In his story, his younger sister Peg and he are adopted by...
I didn't read Megan's part of the series the first time around years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoyed it. Poor Meg got the "Beth March" edit, the shy, quiet, boring one, and as a result, is easily overlooked both in the story and to the reader. It is a shame, because In...
Seventeen-year-old Dina is fighting cancer and is angry at the whole world. But when Julie, a nine-year-old survivor of a car accident, becomes Dina's roommate at the hospital, there's no time for Dina to keep on being angry. Because Julie is frightened. Desperately frightened. She's sure th...
Cameron Casady.2014L.A.Period 2.tThe Ghosts of Now, an exiting book that will keep you on your toes. Written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Bantam Doubleday Dell books in the year 1540. It's genre is mystery.tThis book is about a girl who's brother gets hit by a car! She instantly realize...
Andrea didn't want to accompany her aunt and a group of privileged people on a boat trip to the Bahamas to look at a valuable artifact. But she's stuck there now, and angry when she realizes that this is a stolen artifact. All the adults want to own it, but Andrea knows it should be retumed to th...
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Cody doesn’t like Texas. He and his mom were only supposed to spend the summer there, helping out his grandmother. But Cody’s grandmother is sick and needs them to stay. Now he’s the new kid at the local middle school and all his friends are back in California. You’d think Cody’...
This book was very interesting. At first this book seemed like it was realistic fiction, but then it took a turn and started becoming more of a sic-fi book. I didn't like that it changed in the middle to a more magical book, but it was still good. I think this book is good to read, but I would on...
The author starts out really good by having a mysterious conversation with two men while Cary is watching. I like the whole set up of the book. Cary's dad is running for governor in Texas. And Cary is being threatened. The author gets straight to the point. The plot doesn't drag on forever. The b...
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect there is something sinister going on involving a secret gang of high school students and a company illegally storing toxic waste.
Ten-year-old Lucy Griggs's mother has just died, leaving Lucy orphaned and living on the streets of 1866 New York City. Then Lucy hears about the Children's Aid Society, a group that sends orphans out West to new homes. Lucy knows she'll never replace her mum, but maybe now she'll find a family--...
A Much, Much Better Than Expected Early-Middle Grade Adventure Mystery This book is a Kindle reissue, (old hardcovers are available from third parties), of a book that was part of the Disney Adventures Casebusters series published in the late 90's. The author, Joan Lowery Nixon, (who died in 2003...
On an island in the Mississippi River, a ghost and his dog stand guardWhen their aunt buys an old, run-down inn on the banks of the Mississippi, Chris and Amy Holt go south to help her fix up the place. They lend helping hands during the day, but at night, they wonder about the island in the midd...
Sean's classmate and his family move into the old Everhart mansion, long believed to be haunted. Are there really ghosts in the mansion, or are these incidents being staged by someone? Brian thinks he know the answer.
While working on a local TV news show, Brian gets the scoop of a lifetimeBrian Quinn signed up for journalism class expecting an easy A. But as he quickly finds out, there’s nothing simple about reporting the news. Brian is nervous when his teacher asks him to appear on That’s News 2 Me—a local n...
An Engaging, Easily Readable Early-Middle Grade Adventure Mystery This is the second book, of twelve, in the Casebusters series. It is now available as a Kindle reissue, (old hardcovers are available from third parties). Originally titled the "Disney Adventures Casebusters" series these were fir...
Brian and Sean investigate the disappearance of seven-year-old Lester Hopper and track him down in the haunted pirate caves.
In A Dangerous Promise the protagonist is a 12 year old boy who runs away to join the Union army. The plot of this book is very exiting with many close calls. Mike Kelly and his friend Todd are drummers in the Union army. Their first battle is at the Battle of Bull Run. Todd dies in Battle and Mi...
After a clown chases an escaped monkey through the mall, three shop owners realize they've been burglarized. Evidence points to the owner of the visiting circus, but his son insists somebody else was monkeying around with his dad's costume. It's up to the Casebusters to take on this center-ring c...
When an Internet prank turns serious, Sean becomes the main suspectBored in computer class, Sean Quinn and his friend Matt decide to liven things up with a little computer prank. But the laughs stop quickly when they accidentally hurt a younger student’s feelings, earning themselves a quick trip ...
Brian and Sean are staying with their neighbors, the Nashes, for the weekend in the wooded area of Grizzly Hill. Although there are no grizzly bears around, Sean, Brian, and their friend, Alan, are told to stay out of the woods. But they know something is lurking--they've seen the glowing eyes an...
When the Quinns visit the Piney Point Manor Resort, they learn of a series of thefts that left local police baffled. Sean and Brian can't resist a good mystery, but can the boys discover the identity of the thief before he makes this their last job?
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.
Novelist Augustus Trevor has written a manuscript that reveals the darkest secrets of his guests. Whoever can solve Trevor's clues can have his story removed from the book. But when Trevor is bludgeoned to death, the survivors (along with the reader) are challenged to find both the manuscript and...
Liz enjoys her summer pool job at the glamorous Ridley Hotel. Until the night, a dark and lonely night, a ghasty shadow surges up from the pool. A face -- eyes wide, mouth gaping -- stares at Liz. A hand clutches at her sneaker. Then it, whatever it is, is gone. But danger isn't. Strange things a...
Julie resents being sent to spend the summer with her great aunt and uncle on their ranch in Texas, Rancho del Oro. Her swim team needs her and she’ll be away for the whole summer season. But her family is counting on her, too. Uncle Gabe has broken his ankle and Aunt Glenda needs help. Julie is...
It's a major celebration--the people of Redoaks are ready to open the town's time capsule, buried in 1918. But the contents are missing. Was something of value in the chamber? Is there something residents do not want made public? Sean and Brian find out.
Land developers want to tear down the Culbertson Theater to make room for a supermall, but preservationists want the landmark restored. When a series of accidents thwarts negotiations, it means confronting the ghost that allegedly haunts the theater.
But Donna arrived first with a suitcase filled with blouses and jeans and underwear and a pair of brown sandals, so I’m sitting in a chair, dressed in jeans that are too loose and short and a T-shirt that’s definitely too snug and sandals that actually fit. “I had to guess on sizes,” Donna said a...
Ofe, Johnny, my dearest love, she thought with determination, it's too late for me to help Seth, but it's not too late to save you. Frances let Eddie go with the conductor to get the telegraph equipment Before he left, she patted his shoulder. "I'm glad you're here, Eddie....
As he came into the kitchen, he overheard his mother on the telephone saying to his grandmother, “You never know what to expect at this age. Sometimes they show such bursts of maturity.” Maturity? When all he wanted to do was rake leaves? “There’s nothing to eat in the refrig,” Andy complained. H...
Ralph Wayne, his hands jammed into his pockets, stood a few feet away with Frank Hightower. Their heads were close together, and they spoke quietly. Some of the crew worked nonstop, setting up lights and reflectors and rolling the heavier cameras into position. A lot of people seemed to just stan...
Davidson air. The sky was so clear he could gaze across the valley below to the blue and purple mountains in the Stillwater Range. For the first time on his school's eighth-grade overnight field trip to Virginia City, Nevada, he began to relax. Two tiny chipmunks scrambled out of the underbrush a...
