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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Demco Media
Publication date
August 1, 2003
Binding
Reinforced
Book category
Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13
9780606290012
ISBN-10
060629001X
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$14.49
Other format details
juvenile
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
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An Edgar Award Winner
Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer. "Don't you want to know who he murdered?" she asks. Jim doesn't. Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit. Yet something about her fierce conviction pierces Jim's shell. He begins to burn with a desire for the truth, until it becomes clear that it may be more unsettling than he can bear. What is the real meaning of the strange prayers Father Fisher intones behind the door of his private sanctuary? Why does Ruth Rose suddenly disappear? And what really happened thirty years ago when a boy died in a burning house?
Two years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer. "Don't you want to know who he murdered?" she asks. Jim doesn't. Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit. Yet something about her fierce conviction pierces Jim's shell. He begins to burn with a desire for the truth, until it becomes clear that it may be more unsettling than he can bear. What is the real meaning of the strange prayers Father Fisher intones behind the door of his private sanctuary? Why does Ruth Rose suddenly disappear? And what really happened thirty years ago when a boy died in a burning house?
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The Boy in the Burning House is the winner of the 2002 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (August 1, 2002); titled "The Boy in the Burning House"
9780786244355 | details & prices | 299 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $23.95
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 1, 2001); titled "The Boy in the Burning House"
9780374309305 | details & prices | 213 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.85 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
from Dk Pub (August 1, 2001); titled "The Boy in the Burning House"
9780789456212 | details & prices | 213 pages | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | List price $17.95
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 8, 2003); titled "The Boy in the Burning House"
9780374408879 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.44 lbs | List price $12.99
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
Reinforced
The price comparison is for this edition
from Demco Media (August 1, 2003)
9780606290012 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.49
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (August 11, 2008); titled "The Boy in the Burning House"
9781439518502 | details & prices | 224 pages | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | List price $15.95
from Turtleback Books (December 1, 2003)
9780613690454 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.65 lbs | List price $17.15
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
About: Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
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