When an author focuses on two teenaged street kids as the protagonists for his story, you have to be concerned. Generally, things don't end well. Blink and Caution are smart and canny, although their instincts aren't always very good. So Blink is searching a very nice hotel for breakfast, and he ...
Family secrets, forgotten memories, and the transforming power of truthIt's been six years since sixteen-year-old Dec's free-spirited mother, Lindy, disappeared. Dec feels so trapped in the present, he's avoided examining his past. But when an intruder dies in the museum-like family home, the man...
The book “The Boy in the Burning House” written by Tim Wynne-Jones is a non-fiction mystery. The novel shows the events of a teenage boy named Jim Hawkins whose father had disappeared 2 years earlier. All seemed to have settle in his life before meeting Ruth Rose a seemingly psychotic girl who is...
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man's life forever.
When he was Jay’s father. No, that wasn’t right, either. He had left before Jay was born. How many of these people laced together by elaborate doodles had known of Marc Soto’s departure? It was sudden, she guessed. Had he packed, left a note, sent flowers? Through the wind...
The air was cool, and a wind from the east was already picking up, making the aspens tremble, ruffling the mirror surface of the bay and blowing the mist away. Burl quickly went about cleaning up after the bear. The path to the shed was littered with garbage. The shed door...
He’s standing over the kitchen sink eating a casserole that Mrs. Cope from up the street brought over. Rachel Cope is . . . was . . . Start again, Ev. Rachel Cope was his father’s gardening buddy. Dad called her his pusher lady, dropping by with bulbs and cuttings and things in plain brown bags. ...