| Details | | Publication Date: | 1995-08-01 | | Series: | An Avon Flare Book |
| Size | | Length: | 147 pages | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 2.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
Helping her parents with their house restoration business, Kelly Donovan notices some strange occurrences at the house next door to the one on which they are working and begins to suspect that they are related to a series of baby snatchings. Original.
Industry Reviews
Gr 6-8 Newly relocated in Seattle's Queen Anne district, where her parents are restoring old houses, Kelly Donovan, 16, is pleased to be attending the same high school as her cousin Caitlan. There she befriends Rhonda, a teen mother struggling to succeed in school. Meanwhile, the city is plagued by a series of infant kidnappings, and Kelly becomes highly suspicious of Becker, the furtive man next door, who conveniently turns out to be the villain. Short alternating chapters present the thoroughly nasty mind-set of Becker against the determination of the irrepressible Kelly, who uses video and computer-surveillance techniques in her effort to catch him. When Rhonda's baby is kidnapped, Kelly and Caitlan are propelled into a high-risk amateur investigation. The clich?s mount to a denouement that finds Kelly in a virtual cliffhanger. Just in time, of course, she falls helplessly into the waiting arms of a police officer. A rewarmed, formulaic mystery. Susan W. Hunter, Riverside Middle School, Springfield, VT
Lopate
Gr 6-8 Newly relocated in Seattle's Queen Anne district, where her parents are restoring old houses, Kelly Donovan, 16, is pleased to be attending the same high school as her cousin Caitlan. There she befriends Rhonda, a teen mother struggling to succeed in school. Meanwhile, the city is plagued by a series of infant kidnappings, and Kelly becomes highly suspicious of Becker, the furtive man next door, who conveniently turns out to be the villain. Short alternating chapters present the thoroughly nasty mind-set of Becker against the determination of the irrepressible Kelly, who uses video and computer-surveillance techniques in her effort to catch him. When Rhonda's baby is kidnapped, Kelly and Caitlan are propelled into a high-risk amateur investigation. The clich‚s mount to a denouement that finds Kelly in a virtual cliffhanger. Just in time, of course, she falls helplessly into the waiting arms of a police officer. A rewarmed, formulaic mystery. Susan W. Hunter, Riverside Middle School, Springfield, VT
School Library Journal (01/01/1996)
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