Caught in the Act

Informationen zum Autor Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for  The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore ,  The Séance ,  The Name of the Game Was Murder , and  The Other Side of the Dark , which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans. Klappentext Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home! a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner! a bullying son! and a number of secrets! one of which may be murder. Zusammenfassung As the saga of the Kelly children continues! Mike Kelly is adopted by a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. Although they are kind to him! they are mainly interested in having cheap labor.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Lowery Nixon, Nixon Joan Lowery
• Publisher: Random House Childrens Books US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.1996
• EAN: 9780440226789
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22678-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 173 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Orphan Train Adventures (Paper; Orphan Train Adventures; Orphan Train Adventures
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION / General, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)