Pale Phoenix

by Kathryn Reiss

Book Overview

Miranda isn't happy when sullen orphan Abby Chandler comes to live with her family. But Miranda's anger turns to shock when she learns the girl's horrible secret: Abby's parents and sisters were... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590484052
• ISBN13: 9780590484053
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Another Great Book

This is another fine example of Kathryn Reiss's writing. I think it was a great book. I read atleast 4 times because I loved it so much. I really hope Kathryn Reiss becomes well-known. She has a great imagination and sense of literature. This classic tale about a pheonix rising from the ashes is a great story for young and older people to enjoy. I'd give it 10 stars if I could.

This was a really good book.

The only way that you will reall you will really understand this book fully is if you read the first book, Time Windows. The basic plot is that a girl , Miranda has a very great life with her parents and neighbors in her small Northeastern town until they take in this orphan named Abby to live with them. Miranda and Abby do not get along a weel and things change for Miranda. She beginds to start uncovering Abby's amazing past and helping her deal with it. If you read this book you will really benefit from it becuase, if you read anymore books by this author, the character Abby appears in many of them breifly.

A Can't-Put-Down!

It was great! I couldn't put it down. Very suspenseful also. This author really knows how to get you gripping your seat!

A wonderfully captivating book!

This was a GREAT book! I loved it! Reiss did a wonderful job unfolding her story about Abby, a young puritan girl unable to move on to the next world, trapped by her own reluctance. Her only hope is almost 300 years later when Miranda discovers her secret and tries to help, but not until the two learn to get along after Miranda's parents decide to take Abby in. A very inticing story and definitely worth reading! I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did!

Phoenix Rising

In this book, magic is presented in a realistic way: through a teenager with somewhat normal looks and a somewhat normal life. She's only some 200 years old. This book keeps you on edge until the last page.