Nightmareby~ Joan Lowry NixonRandon House Children’s BooksOriginally released on September 9, 2003. rereleased August 9, 2005. Nightmare Is a really great Young Adult Novel. The protagonist in this novel is Emily Wood, an underachiever at school who just wishes she could blend in and disappear...
The book called The Weekend was Murder was about a sixteen year old girl named Liz, and she worked at a very expensive hotel called the Ridley's hotel. There was a roomer that was spreading saying that the hotel was being haunted by a ghost in room number nineteen!!! When the ghost was a male hum...
The HauntingJoan Lowry NixonAre you a young reader who loves mysteries about ghosts and haunted houses. Then you should read The Haunting, written by Joan Lowry Nixon. If you have ever read any books by Nixon, then you know she has been called the grande dame of young adult mysteries. With more t...
Talking To The Dead: Whispers From the Dead by Joan Lowery Nixon tells the story of a 16 soon to be 17 year old girl, Sarah. Sarah goes swimming at a lake with her friends and almost ends up dead. After her near death experience she starts to hear voices, voices no one else hears. She’s the ...
I have no idea how she does it but Joan lowery Nixon has successfully written ANOTHER short thrilling YA mystery! So far, all of her books that I've read have been unique, interesting and very entertaining. I love her as an author and can't believe she's come up with all of these different plots!...
Three years have passed since the Kelly children moved out west from New York City. This part of the tale is placed in the hands of Peg, now 11 years old. Peg's desperate to be like her older siblings and longs to be treated like an adult. She is granted the chance when the mysterious Violet come...
Justin BrandonGoodreads Book ReviewB-210/6/15tThe book I read this quarter was called “A Family Apart” by Joan Lowery Nixon. This is a nonfiction book about a family who lives on the Orphan Train for most of their childhood life in 1856.tIn the book “A Family Apart” the author's purpose is to sho...
In A Place to Belong, the next story in the Orphan Train saga, Danny Kelly wishes his family were back together. Danny’s a mix of Meg and Mike to some degree but lacks the rich characterization of his siblings in the previous three books. In his story, his younger sister Peg and he are adopted by...
I didn't read Megan's part of the series the first time around years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoyed it. Poor Meg got the "Beth March" edit, the shy, quiet, boring one, and as a result, is easily overlooked both in the story and to the reader. It is a shame, because In...
Cameron Casady.2014L.A.Period 2.tThe Ghosts of Now, an exiting book that will keep you on your toes. Written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Bantam Doubleday Dell books in the year 1540. It's genre is mystery.tThis book is about a girl who's brother gets hit by a car! She instantly realize...
This book was very interesting. At first this book seemed like it was realistic fiction, but then it took a turn and started becoming more of a sic-fi book. I didn't like that it changed in the middle to a more magical book, but it was still good. I think this book is good to read, but I would on...
The author starts out really good by having a mysterious conversation with two men while Cary is watching. I like the whole set up of the book. Cary's dad is running for governor in Texas. And Cary is being threatened. The author gets straight to the point. The plot doesn't drag on forever. The b...
A Much, Much Better Than Expected Early-Middle Grade Adventure Mystery This book is a Kindle reissue, (old hardcovers are available from third parties), of a book that was part of the Disney Adventures Casebusters series published in the late 90's. The author, Joan Lowery Nixon, (who died in 2003...
An Engaging, Easily Readable Early-Middle Grade Adventure Mystery This is the second book, of twelve, in the Casebusters series. It is now available as a Kindle reissue, (old hardcovers are available from third parties). Originally titled the "Disney Adventures Casebusters" series these were fir...
In A Dangerous Promise the protagonist is a 12 year old boy who runs away to join the Union army. The plot of this book is very exiting with many close calls. Mike Kelly and his friend Todd are drummers in the Union army. Their first battle is at the Battle of Bull Run. Todd dies in Battle and Mi...