- Suicide, Cousins, Juvenile fiction, Family problems
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Jennifer Allison
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 321
- Publisher
- Dutton Children's Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525473756
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