| The White Mercedes Contributor(s): Pullman, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679886230 ISBN-13: 9780679886235 Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: After a single sexual encounter, Chris Marshall falls madly in love with Jenny, a young woman he does not know. Wandering the streets, never coming face to face, each becomes involved with Barry Miller, a small time crook with Edward Carson, a convicted murderer, on his trail. These four spiral around each other until the savage climax when Jenny is gunned down in a case of mistaken identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement - Young Adult Fiction | Mysteries & Detective Stories - Young Adult Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92011072 |
| Lexile Measure: 770 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 4.14" W x 6.96" (0.19 lbs) 176 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10149 Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A chance meeting with Jenny at an Oxford party leaves seventeen-year-old Chris with hope for a summer romance--and no premonition of trouble. Busy with his job and soon in love with Jenny, whose cheerful surface belies the dark uncertainty of her past, Chris misses all the signs of danger. Before he knows it, he's caught in the sinister web of a criminal whose desire for revenge crushes all those who stand in his way. The story line will hook readers and hold them . . . a pageturner that raises some unsettling questions about trust and betrayal and the nature of good and evil.--School Library Journal An engrossing, tragic story with rare depth of feeling. . . . Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough.--Kirkus Reviews Fans of Robert Cormier should appreciate this tense thriller.--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books |