The She

A haunting search for truth from a Printz-Honoree

Publishers Weekly

A nine-year-old boy who loses his seafaring parents in a storm finds himself at 17 confronting the same suspicions about The She, a fabled dark force that lurks off the Jersey shore. PW said, "This chiller at one moment resembles a mournful dirge, the next a supernatural thriller, the next a tightly woven mystery." Ages 14-up. (Aug.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

CAROL PLUM-UCCI is a graduate of Purdue University and has received numerous awards and citations in entertainment and business writing. She is the author of The Body of Christopher Creed (Harcourt, 2000), which was named a Michael L. Printz Honor book and was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. She lives in New Jersey.