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Charlie comes to another boy's rescue at school for what seems at first to be just an ordinary, if unpleasant, piece of bullying. But other children claim that this boy is a witch or a vampire and possesses the evil eye. What is it about Peter that upsets everybody so much - even his own father?
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Gillian Cross has written many award-winning books for children in her native UK. The Dark Ground Trilogy: Book One is her first book for Dutton Children’s Books.
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Cross (New World, 1995, etc.) tautly combines a mystery with a compassionate novel about the healing power of friendship and love. Teenage Charlie Willcox is an amateur photographer who captures the image of a strange animal swimming in the river behind the Luttrells' house. The animal--actually an otter--is only the first part of the puzzle, because the Luttrells themselves are even stranger. The father is cold and hostile, the mother nervous, daughter Jennifer evasive, and son Peter--the oddest of all--a socially awkward boy who is bullied at school and abused at home, regularly locked up in the family's backyard shed. While Mr. Luttrell sets traps for the otter, Charlie befriends Peter, who warms to the kind attention. Although the story is set in contemporary Scotland, American readers will find it accessible, with only a few regional terms scattered about. The depiction of high school life is sharp, especially the bullying of Peter, which leads to his nearly drowning. In the deeply satisfying conclusion, it is Charlie who rescues his friend, but it is the salvation of the Luttrell family that readers will cheer. Persuasive and resonant. (Fiction. 12+) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherGardners Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140383131
- ISBN 13 9780140383133
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