Rob Mills

Loved the beginning and thought it would be a sure fire winner with the middle school kids; a boy survives a car accident which claims the life of his father, but not before the father can drop a key into the son's hand, a key about which he knows nothing.
As the mystery surrounding the key unwinds, the book becomes less and less suitable for middle school students. The reader finds out that Catholic priests who looked after the dead father when he was a boy, were involved in sexual activity with young boys, and it suddenly isn't a book I'm eager to put on middle school shelves.… (altro)