Written by Lynne Jonell. 2009 first edition, first printing. Henry Holt & Co.
A Best Book of 2009 by the School Library Journal.
CHAPTER I
Secrets
"Christina had fallen asleep while reading under the dining room table and awakened to the clink of silverware and the sound of grown-up voices telling secrets. And that was how she found out, long after it had happened, that her mother had been blown up."
FRONT FLAP
"Christina lives in an old stone mansion on the edge of a forest surrounded by barbed wire, an electrified fence, and signs that read TRESPASSERS WILL BE BOILED. High above them looms the Starkian Mountain Ridge, and deep within the forest is the laboratory where her mother was blown to bits when Christina was a baby.
"Christina's father, the head scientist at Loompsky Labs, knows just how dangerous the world can be. So he keeps his daughter safe at home and forbids her to talk to the very interesting orphans down the road.
"But when an orphan boy named Taft talks to her, whispering of a secret tunnel, Christina forgets about safety and helps him escape. ..."
Lynne Jonell (1956 - ) has written children's picture books, chapter books, and novels, including Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls, The Sign of the Cat, and Time Sight.
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