| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780440931157 | | Publisher: Dell Publishing Co | | Publish Date: 5/1/1986 | | Buy.com Sku: 30068157 | | Item#: RF3QR9 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6.75H x 4L x 0.5T |
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| | | | ""You can make it, Angie," I tell myself. "Hey! You're a good kid. You'll survive." I clench my teeth and stare through the dusty classroom window..." (from the first line) It's Friday night and Angie Dupree is alone in the house when the phone rings. "Your brother is dead," whispers a voice. At the hospital, Angie finds Jeremy in a coma from which he may never recover.
Angie is on her own trying to piece together the events of that horrifying night. Her family is new to town.What could Jeremy possibly have discovered that led him so deeply into danger? Angie won't rest until she finds out. But she doesn't know someone is ready to do anything to stop her. . . .
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Having recently moved to a new town with her parents and her brother Jeremy, high school student Angie Dupree is home alone when she receives a mysterious phone call. The unidentified caller whispers "your brother is dead" and then hangs up. Terrified, Angie eventually discovers that her brother has been hit by a car and taken to the hospital where he lies in a coma from which he may never awaken. Sure that the caller had something to do with Jeremy's "accident", Angie sets out to discover who could have wanted to harm her brother.
| Author Bio| Joan Lowery Nixon | | Joan Lowery Nixon is a prolific author of picture books, beginning reader books, and young adult novels. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she met her future husband, Hershell H. Nixon. The main characters of her first book, THE MYSTERY OF HURRICANE CASTLE, are based on two of her daughters. Nixon is perhaps best known for her mystery novels for young adults. Her books have made her a four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Writers of America Award. In addition to her fiction work, she has written a number of nonfiction titles, including EARTHQUAKES: NATURE IN MOTION, in conjunction with her husband, a geologist. The author of over 110 books, Lowery died of cancer in 2003. |
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