Are You in the House Alone? - Hardcover

Peck, Richard

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9780670132416: Are You in the House Alone?

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670132411 ISBN 13: 9780670132416

Publisher: Viking Juvenile, 1976

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An updated look for the classic YA thriller from genre heavyweight Richard Peck

Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy everyone refuses to take action against him and his powerful family. A frightening drama that deals with heavy teen issues and the idea of justice (or lack thereof) from bestselling author Richard Peck.

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From the Publisher:

"Forget it," Alison counseled. "It never happened." But it was happening. The obscene notes. "Stop reading that garbage!" Alison shrieked and grabbed the neatly lettered page from Gail's frozen hands. And whenever Gail was alone, the phone rang and went dead as soon as she answered it. As her world shaded into a nightmare, Gail, surrounded by friends, family, and teachers, found herself utterly alone.

Then one evening her nightmare became fact when she learned an even more tragic truth; in spite of violence and degradation, she was still alone, the victim of a crime that punished the innocent and let the criminal go free.

From the Back Cover:

Gail can't escape the feeling that she's being watched.

Gail Osburne is living the good life in suburban Connecticut -- until she finds an obscene note in her locker. "Forget it", her friend Alison counsels. But Gail can't forget. Another note appears, and another. Then the phone calls start -- and the horrible feeling that someone, somewhere, is watching her and waiting for the chance to strike.

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