The Boy in the Burning House Tapa dura - 2000

Groundwood Books, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto/Vancouver: Groundwood, 2001. Soft cover. NF.. 5x1x8. Part mystery, part psychological thriller.

Toronto, ON, Canada: Groundwood Books, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. pp.231 clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

" From its opening scene, in which a teenage girl overhears her stepfather's creepy confessions, to its terrifying conclusion in a deserted mine shaft, Tim Wynne-Jones's The Boy in the Burning House has the magnetic energy of a well-crafted made-for-television thriller, without pausing for commercial breaks. Like the best of the TV thrillers, The Boy in the Burning House features a smiling, unredeemable villain: Father Fisher, who leads the Church of the Blessed Transfiguration in a remote farming community. Fourteen-year-old Jim Hawkins's father, Hub, has disappeared, and Ruth Rose, the pastor's stepdaughter, tries to convince him that Fisher killed Hub. If that possibility isn't unsavory enough, Jim discovers that his dad and Fisher were both involved in a fire that killed another teenage boy 30 years before. It is the unraveling of this long-hidden mystery that gives The Boy in the Burning House its page-turning edginess. As Jim investigates his father's past, his memories of a gentle and morally… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.