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Stephen Fair
Stephen Fair
Author: Tim Wynne-Jones
A masterful new novel about memory, family secrets, and the transforming power of truth. It happened to his older brother, and now it's happening to Stephen. Night after night, he has the same nightmare--a baby crying in a treetop, a remarkable tree house threatened by fire from below. His distraught mother calls in Hesketh Martin. A witch, Ste...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780789424952
ISBN-10: 0789424959
Publication Date: 3/15/1998
Pages: 218
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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4.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This is a great book. Interesting story line.
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Harper Trophy - Ages 12 and up -

A dark family secret . . . Stephen is fifteen when the nightmares begin. The dream is always the same: a crying baby, a wooden ldder, a house built in the branches, fire everywhere. Night after night, the fantastic images haunt him. More chilling than the dream itself, though, is the fact that this is the very same nightmare that haunted Stephen's brother, Marcus - the dream that drove Marcus to run away. Now Stephen is the age his brother was when he left, and he wonders what it all means.
Determined not to run away from the truth, Stephen steels himself for a journey of remarkable discovry that he hopes will eventually lead him to the truth about the past and, ultimately, about himself.

Actually a pretty good book - angst of growing up as part of a dysfuntional (but still functional) family. Not a horror story but a good awakening story for a lost fifteen year old boy on his way to discovering that he's actually found - not lost.


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