Alane Ferguson
Autore di The Christopher Killer
Sull'Autore
Alane Ferguson is an award-winning writer. Her first mystery, Show Me the Evidence, won the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Elizabeth, Colorado. (Bowker Author Biography)
Fonte dell'immagine: from alaneferguson.com
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Ferguson, Lanie
- Data di nascita
- 1957-02-08
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Cumberland, Maryland, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Elizabeth, Colorado, USA
Cumberland, Maryland, USA - Istruzione
- University of Utah
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
- Relazioni
- Skurzynski, Gloria (mother)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 32
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 3,227
- Popolarità
- #7,931
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 119
- ISBN
- 162
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 5
(Ages 8-12, grades 3-7)
This story is just so-so! I thought the story would focus more on whales, but it seemed to focus more on Bindy, the foster girl who everyone thought was literally a big fat liar. Her parents had died and she was adopted by an aunt who had a son. This son was golden-boy. He was a high school football star and very well liked. Bindy, on the other hand, was chunky, heavyset, over ate, all this the author made very clear. Golden-boy had a hidden mean streak and would beat up on Bindy.
Bindy finally got brave enough to tell her Aunt and Uncle but they didn’t believe her. It caused so much trouble in the family that they decided to throw her into the foster system where she would end up with the Landon family, who had two kids Jack and Ashley. Their mother was a scientist who studied the mysterious deaths of sea mammals. She was called to travel to Maine when suddenly there were 12 different varieties of sea mammals washed up onto the shore at Bar Harbor. Most were dead, but few were in the process of being stranded.
Where the story goes a little awry is when the kids find themselves in a dangerous adult crime situation by trying to solve the mystery themselves. There wasn’t too much written about whales, themselves, but the author does add an Afterward on true facts about whales and how sonar causes them to beach. The little bits and pieces of this story regarding whales are based on true facts.
The story just wasn’t what I thought it “could” be. Younger kids might find it interesting or boring. I’m just not even sure.… (altro)