Thin Ice
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
An edge-of-the-seat adventure! - Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
Seventeen-year-old Arden Munro has been raised by her older brother, Scott, ever since the death of their parents 10 years earlier. He has been her only family. But now Scott too is dead--or so believe the local police and everyone in Arden's community. Arden, however, is convinced that Scott has staged his snowmobile accident and purposely disappeared. She will search until she finds him. As Arden obsessively continues her detective hunt, she is forced to examine her feelings of loss and isolation, and to finally realize that these feelings existed long before Scott's accident. Whether or not her brother reappears, where should Arden turn for the support that usually comes from family? The page-turning mystery leads to a heart-tugging conclusion that is at once hopeful and sad, piercing and satisfying.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this riveting study of obsession and denial, readers are challenged to test their deductive skills against those of a 17-year-old orphan. Arden is convinced that her ex-guardian and older brother, Scott, is alive and on the run although he has been declared dead (the victim of a snowmobile mishap on an icy Wisconsin lake). She guesses that Scott, overwhelmed by endless responsibilities, wanted desperately to escape, but evidence supporting her hypothesis is sketchy at best ("How many people could die suddenly and not leave even one embarrassing thing behind?"). Police, friends and even the school psychologist are quick to point out holes in Arden's logic; most think her suspicions have more to do with unresolved feelings about the deaths of her parents 11 years earlier than with the facts about Scott. More genuine than either the drama's premise or its highly improbable conclusion are the roller-coaster emotions shaking Arden as she seeks to uncover clues. Hooked by Qualey's (Everybody's Daughter) full-bodied characters, expertly evoked rural setting and crackerjack pacing, readers will waver, wondering if Arden is on the right track or simply crazed by grief. An edge-of-the-seat adventure. Ages 12-up.
