Synopses & Reviews
Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were killed in a house fire in this very town--more than three hundred years ago. Somehow Abby survived the fire and has been living in a virtual limbo ever since.
Fifteen-year-old Miranda Browne, the extraordinary protagonist from Kathryn Reiss's first novel, Time Windows, returns for a new time-travel adventure.
Review
"A book with everything a reader wants. . . .
Pale Phoenix has something for everyone."--
VOYA"Once again Reiss proves herself a canny practitioner of the junior gothic, blending elements of romance and suspense with confident storytelling."--The Bulletin
"A thoughtful and enjoyable book. Readers will certainly want to see more of Miranda and Dan and their delightful parents."--Booklist
Synopsis
In this companion to
Time Windows, Miranda must help a girl who has been living in a ghostly state of limbo since her family was killed more than three hundred years ago.
About the Author
KATHRYN REISS is the author of Time Windows, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; The Glass House People; Dreadful Sorry; Pale Phoenix, a finalist for the Edgar Award; and most recently, PaperQuake: A Puzzle. A master of the time-travel mystery genre, "Reiss slips between past and present with a callous alacrity that is wondrously effective" (Kirkus Reviews). She lives with her family in Northern California.