After her parents tell the girls the diagnosis is MS, Chirp believes if she just feels the soft warmth of her mother's hand she knows everything will be alright. But Chirp believes nothing will change - her mother will get better and she will dance again. But all is about to change as Rachel turns thirteen and turns teenager and her mother, who is a dancer, becomes sick. With bird-watching in the woods, throwing rocks with Joey, dancing in the rain with her sister Rachel and her mother-childhood where each new day is full of fun and adventures. She has no worries as summer is carefree. It's 1972 in Cape Cod and Chirp just turned eleven.
Just beware, once you start reading, you won't be able to stop until you reach the surprising climax.Book Lover Resources, Advice for Writers and Publishers If you like suspense, psychic ability, and a scary story, The Mystery at Marlatt Manor is for you. There's also Kyle, an 8th grade nerd who wears checkered pants Roger Dunlop, a grumpy banker and Albert Hampton, Marlatt Manor's creepy caretaker.Ĭoupled with all this, Aggie may lose her beloved home and Mallory has strange dreams that may be the key to solving everyone's problems, including the manor's mystery. First, there's Grandma Aggie, who would rather ride a motorcycle, skydive, or delve into forensic science than sit in a rocker and knit.
Could that be Violet's ghost?Īnne Loader McGee brings us a fast paced middle school novel, The Mystery at Marlatt Manor, as teen sleuth Mallory uncovers the mystery of the missing girl and the weird people that seem to be hunting for a possible lost treasure.Īlong the way, McGee introduces us to a cast of quirky characters. That night, Mallory sees a flickering light in the deserted house followed by the silhouette of a girl. Soon after, Mallory's mom tells her about Violet Marlatt, a missing teen who disappeared 50 years ago from that mansion during a party, and was never seen again.
Everything changes fast when a sports car forces the thirteen-year-old cyclist off the road and into a ditch as it speeds away from the spooky house on the hill. Cedar Creek is a complete bore and its middle school doesn't even have a girls' baseball team. Mallory Gilmartin, uprooted by divorce from her Philadelphia home, is transplanted to rural Virginia.
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