|
nancy@nancykeane.com
|
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews
|
Fleischman,
Sid.
DISAPPEARING ACT
New York : Greenwillow, 2003.
IL 3-6, RL 6.0
ISBN 0060519630
|
| After
their mother disappears, twelve-year-old Kevin and his older sister find
themselves on the run. Someone has been stalking them in there Albuquerque
home and they decide that it isn't safe to stay any longer. So they
pack their things up in the car and off they go. They end up at Venice,
California and try to blend in to the local scene. Actually, Venice
Beach has such an odd assortment of inhabitants, that it isn't hard to
blend in. The kids change their names and go in search of some form
of income. Kevin teams up with a watermelon juggler and becomes his
hat man. Holly is able to continue her love of opera by singing for
tips on the beach. Things are going well for the kids. But
can this keep up? Will the stalker find them here? And what
could he possibly want? |
|
SUBJECTS:
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Stalking -- Fiction.
Beaches -- Fiction.
Opera -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction. |
© 
Permission is granted for the
noncommercial duplication and use of this resource, provided it is substantially
unchanged from its present form and appropriate credit is given.
|
