Susan Heyboer O Keefe: 3 books

Everything in fourteen-year-old Allie Canarsie’s life has gone wrong until she finds meaning investigating the circumstances behind a young boy’s unexpected death. The new town, Nickel Park, where Allie has moved with her mother is a big disappointment. The rented trailer where they live now is...

"It was last-period math, with summer vacation close enough to touch. My daydream was just getting to the part where the cute cooking groupies show me around Stockholm after the Nobel Prize awards dinner. Then Mrs. Menendez 's voice went up a notch, and the groupies vanished. Algebra could scare...

A gothic horror story that imagines what happens to Frnkenstein's monster after the death of his creator, Victor.   What becomes of a monster without its maker?At the end of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, the creator dies but his creation still lives, cursed to a life of isolation and hatred. Frankenstein’s...