| Good Graces Contributor(s): Kagen, Lesley (Author) |
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ISBN: 0451236653 ISBN-13: 9780451236654 Publisher: Berkley / Nal OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.11" W x 8.21" (0.69 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Family - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Wisconsin - Locality - Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wi - Seasonal - Summer |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To this day, my sister insists it was nothing more than the unrelenting heat that drove us to do what we did that summer, but that's just Troo yanking my chain the way she always has. Deep down, she knows as well as I do that it wasn't anything as mundane as the weather. It was the hand of the Almighty that shoved us off the straight and narrow path... Whistling in the Dark--a national bestseller--captivated readers with the story of ten-year-old Sally O'Malley and her sister, Troo, during Milwaukee's summer of 1959. Now it's one year later, and Sally, who made a deathbed promise to her daddy to keep Troo safe, is having a hard time honoring her vow. Her sister is growing increasingly rebellious amid a string of home burglaries, the escape from reform school of a nemesis, and the mysterious disappearance of an orphan--events that have the entire neighborhood on edge. And in that tense, hot summer, Sally will have to ground her flights of imagination, and barter her waning innocence, in order to sort the truths from the lies to protect her sister and herself. |