Lois Duncan
2) Blackwood
Author
Publisher
Nocturna
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Formats
Description
«Si en Blackwood sólo hay cuatro alumnas, ¿de quiénes son las otras voces?».
Cuando Kit Gordy ve Blackwood Hall despuntar sobre las puertas negras de hierro, no puede evitar pensar: «Este lugar es maligno». La imponente mansión le provoca un desasosiego que en los siguientes días no hace más que intensificarse. En especial cuando oye los rumores sobre el incendio que calcinó hace años esas mismas paredes.
...Author
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary look at the genesis of a great writer's career, Written in the Stars is a collection of Lois Duncan's earliest stories. Composed from the ages of 13 through 22. From family relationships, to the joy and angst of first love, to the struggles of a young soldier returning from war with PTSD, this unique book, whose stories originally appeared in magazines such as Seventeen and American Girl, is a marvelous portrait of the depth and breadth...
Author
Language
English
Description
Louis Duncan's 1958 young adult classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town: the parties, the ball gowns, as well as one girl's growing sense of right and wrong. Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when she decides not to be a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There she...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On July 16, 1989, Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The police gave up, but her mother would not . . .
In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn’s murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter’s accidental connection...
In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn’s murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter’s accidental connection...
8) Gallows Hill
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.
12) Ransom
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edgar Award finalist: When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know something’s wrong: “[A] gripping thriller.” —Publishers Weekly
Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the...
Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the...
13) Down a dark hall
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.
14) The third eye
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help thepolice locate missing children.
16) Summer of fear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected.
17) A gift of magic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Until she learns to control it, Nancy's gift of extrasensory perception brings her more trouble than she can handle.
18) News for dogs
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After successfully running a hotel for dogs, Andi and her brother Bruce put their energy into a new project: a newspaper for dogs, but soon earn the attention of some diabolical dog-snatchers.
20) Movie for dogs
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Andi's brother Bruce wants to enter a dog-themed film-making contest, Andi jumps at the opportunity to become a screenwriter. But neither of them expects what happens next -- a producer wants their movie! Can Andi and Bruce's show (and dogs) go Hollywood?