Night Cry
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FEAR, like icy pellets, rained down on her as Ellen entered the barn.
About this book
There are all kinds of fearful night noises on the backwoods farm where Ellen lives, often by herself because her salesman father travels a lot. But more than anything, Ellen is terrified of their horse, Sleet, who had thrown her brother a year ago and killed him. Then a local boy is kidnapped, and to Ellen the woods are full of devils and demons. One morning she is awakened before dawn by a cry--is it a "night cry" or the cry of the kidnapped child? Does Ellen have the courage to venture out into the dark and find out?
Themes & subjects
FictionMississippi in fictionFear in fictionKidnapping in fictionKidnappingFarm life in fiction
First published 1984Setting
Mississippi
About the author
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4 January 1933
"Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade."--From Wikipedia
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