The Other Side of Dark - Softcover

Nixon, Joan Lowery

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ISBN 10: 0440966388 ISBN 13: 9780440966388

Publisher: Laurel Leaf, 1987

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Stacy wakes up in a room that's not hers, in a body she doesn't recognize, to discover she's been in a coma for four years. Her mother is dead--murdered--and Stacy, recovering from a gunshot wound, is the only eyewitness to her mother's murder.
She can recall only a shadowy face, so far. But the killer is not about to let her reveal his identity...

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About the Author:

JOAN LOWERY NIXON, "the grande dame of young adult mysteries," wrote more than 130 books for young readers. She is the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore,The S�ance, The Name of the Game Is Murder, and The Other Side of Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal.
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From School Library Journal:

Grade 7-10 Awakening from a four-year coma, Stacy learns that the intruder who shot her also killed her mother, and that she was the only witness. Stacy has to come to terms with her new identity: physically a 17 year old, yet mentally still a 13 year old, she has missed four years of growing up and of popular culture. At the same time, she realizes that she has to identify the killer before he can silence her. Stacy is a vivid character whose need to be brought up to date provides some comic moments, such as her confusion at new hair styles and her unfamiliarity with pasta salad. While this mystery is generally tense and dramatic, the first-person narrative does remove the edge from some of the suspense. One other weakness is Stacy's love interest, a narcotics officer masquerading as a high-school senior. Nixon does not convince readers that this 23-year-old man would fall in love with someone who in so many ways thinks and acts like a 13 year old. Yet the clever premise, the quick pace, and the determined protagonist should attract and hold readers. David Gale, "School Library Journal"
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