When Kiki's father moves her family to a run-down ranch in Napa so he can go off to fight in WWII, she's faced with saving her mother from an angry ghost.
The Something In the Attic is a YA historical thriller set in Napa, CA in the 1940's.
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Shadowy trees appeared through the rain, sodden gray sentinels lining the road on either side. The branches looked like arms raised in damp warning. Kiki saw the watery shape of buildings, just visible in the distance.
"Is that it?"
A small white cottage stood huddled with other buildings. With its eaves dripping and window shades at half-mast, it could have been crying.
"That's it." Mrs. Moore's shoulders slumped.
When I wrote ths book in 2000, I was concerned about children having access to the Internet and to chat rooms where "you can be anyone you want." Here we are many years later and the situation with children talking freely to stangers on the Internet
Assistant County Attorney Ken Anderson spends his weekends drinking and running around. After waking up with another hangover, Ken decides not to drink so much anymore. Ken and his buddy, Tony, go out to eat and see Mia Correa and Faye Kincaid at the
