The Boy in the Burning House

The Boy in the Burning House - Paperback

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The Boy in the Burning House - Paperback

The Boy in the Burning House - Paperback

by Tim Wynne-Jones
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Book Overview

by Tim Wynne-Jones (Author)

An Edgar Award Winner

Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer. "Don't you want to know who he murdered?" she asks. Jim doesn't. Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit. Yet something about her fierce conviction pierces Jim's shell. He begins to burn with a desire for the truth, until it becomes clear that it may be more unsettling than he can bear. What is the real meaning of the strange prayers Father Fisher intones behind the door of his private sanctuary? Why does Ruth Rose suddenly disappear? And what really happened thirty years ago when a boy died in a burning house?

The Boy in the Burning House is the winner of the 2002 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.

Author Biography

Tim Wynne-Jones's critically acclaimed fiction includes Some of the Kinder Planets, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for fiction. He lives in Perth, Ontario.

Number of Pages: 213
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5 IN
Publication Date: September 08, 2003
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Boy in the Burning House
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 8
ISBN9780374408879
Author Tim Wynne-Jones
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
GenreChildren and Family
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2003
LanguageENG- English
Pages213
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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