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Frost does it again with this unusual novel in verse. In the suspenseful first part, young Wren Abbott is left alone in the car while her mother is in the store when a man jumps in and steals it. She hides in the back seat and manages to sneak out of the car and hide in the man's garage. Trapped there for several days, she endures with some help from the man's young daughter and eventually escapes and the man is caught. I had to read that all in one go--the suspense was killing me! In the rest o
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This is off this year’s OLA/WLA Mock Newbery, which I will (sob) not be attending due to a previous engagement. However, I’m still trying to read through the list and I’m glad because otherwise I might have missed this one. It’s gripping from page one and one of those verse novels that justifies its existence as a verse novel (ie, not just prose broken up randomly into shorter lines).
Helen Frost is a thoughtful and clever lady.
May 27, 2011
Jessi
marked it as to-read
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