In The Face of Danger

Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition.

About the author

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.

Summary

Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition

Product details

• Authors: Joan Lowery Nixon, Nixon Joan Lowery
• Publisher: Random House N.Y.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1996
• EAN: 9780440227052
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22705-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 173 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 96 g
• Series: Orphan Train Adventures (Paper; Orphan Train Adventures; Orphan Train Adventures
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary