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A mysterious girl, dubbed The Watcher, spins tales of rescue from her lonely perch above the beach. She closely observes the actions of two people she has never met: a fourteen-year-old boy whose family seems perfect and a handsome eighteen-year-old lifeguard. Their lives become intertwined -- and their troubling truths are revealed.
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FictionFamily problemsChild abuseBeachesDysfunctional familiesJuvenile fiction
First published 1997About the author
James Howe
1946
JAMES HOWE IS THE AUTHOR OF OVER NINETY BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, INCLUDING THE MODERN CLASSICS BUNNICULA AND THE MISFITS AND BOTH BOOKS’ HIGHLY POPULAR SEQUELS. He wrote the award-winning bestseller Bunnicula with his late wife, Deborah Howe, in 1977. The couple went on to write one other children’s book, Teddy Bear’s Scrapbook, before Deborah’s untimely death from cancer in 1978. After Bunnicula’s publication in 1979, James Howe quit his job as a literary agent to pursue writing full-time. His many other popular books for children include the six sequels to Bunnicula; the Tales from the House of Bunnicula series; the Bunnicula and Friends Ready-to-Read series; the Pinky and Rex series; …
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