Night Cry - Hardcover

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068931017X ISBN 13: 9780689310171

Publisher: Atheneum, 1984

Synopsis

Ellen had never been out of the low hill country of northeastern Mississippi. Since the death of her mother many years before, and the death of her younger brother only a year or so earlier, she and her father had shared their cabin and five acres of land alone. Except for Sleet, the horse that-because he feared lightning and thunder-had thrown and killed her brother. Ellen was terrified of Sleet.It was summer. Ellen's father's newest job-he had had many-was as a calendar salesman, so he was gone a great deal of the time. Her only contact with the outside world was through the telephone and news programs on the TV. The family's nearest neighbor was Granny Bo, an old woman full of stories of days past and dark forebodings about the present and future, which she read from signs and portents she clearly accepted as true. Ellen believed and shared Granny Bo's fears even when she did not want to.Then, stirring events in the nearby town, a stranger and his wife living in a nearby abandoned house, a kidnapping, and deeper and deeper questions in Ellen's mind about everyone she knew-including her father and Granny Bo-conspired to make Ellen face her fears and find her courage, just when it was most needed.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

l kinds of fearful night noises on the backwoods farm where Ellen lives, often by herself because her salesman father travels a lot. But more than anything, Ellen is terrified of their horse, Sleet, who had thrown her brother a year ago and killed him.
Then a local boy is kidnapped, and to Ellen the woods are full of devils and demons. One morning she is awakened before dawn by a cry--is it a "night cry" or the cry of the kidnapped child? Does Ellen have the courage to venture out into the dark and find out?

About the Author:

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Her father a Southerner, her mother from the North, PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR spent many childhood summers on sprawling farms in Iowa, in the rolling countryside of Maryland, and in the Mississippi backwoods. She now makes her home in Bethesda, Maryland, where her husband, Rex, is a speech pathologist. They have two sons, Jeffrey and Michael. Mrs. Naylor is the author of forty-six books, including The Solomon System and A String of Chances, an ALA notable book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 068931017X
• ISBN 13: 9780689310171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168