It’s summer vacation, and twelve-year-old Nell has gone upstate to spend a month with Aunt Ursa and Cousin Foley. Seeing Foley’s best friend, Slade, puts a smile on Nell’s face, even when she tries to stay cool. Nell is enjoying the lazy days of summer, especially Foley’s antics and Slade’s flirty talk . . . until the boys surprise her with a frightening request. They want her to hide a pistol in her old dollhouse. Nell doesn’t know what to do. Suddenly, she doesn’t trust anyone, even herself. But when tragedy strikes, she knows she can’t handle it on her own.
 
ISBN: 9780544230163
Imprint: ClarionBks
On Sale: Apr 15, 2014
List price: $10.99
No of pages: 224
Trim Size: 5.470 in (w) x 8.250 in (h) x 0.650 in (d)
BISAC 1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Peer Pressure *
BISAC 2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings *
BISAC 3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes) *

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Biography

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times best-selling author of several books for young readers, including the novel Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club for Kids pick, and Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award. Additional works include the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book Duke Ellington, illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney; and Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Honor book and winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award. Andrea Davis Pinkney lives in New York City.

It’s summer vacation, and twelve-year-old Nell has gone upstate to spend a month with Aunt Ursa and Cousin Foley. Seeing Foley’s best friend, Slade, puts a smile on Nell’s face, even when she tries to stay cool. Nell is enjoying the lazy days of summer, especially Foley’s antics and Slade’s flirty talk . . . until the boys surprise her with a frightening request. They want her to hide a pistol in her old dollhouse. Nell doesn’t know what to do. Suddenly, she doesn’t trust anyone, even herself. But when tragedy strikes, she knows she can’t handle it on her own.
 

ISBN: 9780544230163
Imprint: ClarionBks
On Sale: Apr 15, 2014
List price: $10.99
No of pages: 224
Trim Size: 5.470 in (w) x 8.250 in (h) x 0.650 in (d)
BISAC 1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Peer Pressure *
BISAC 2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings *
BISAC 3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes) *

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Biography

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times best-selling author of several books for young readers, including the novel Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club for Kids pick, and Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award. Additional works include the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book Duke Ellington, illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney; and Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Honor book and winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award. Andrea Davis Pinkney lives in New York City.