In The Face of Danger
By (Author) Joan Lowery Nixon
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Bantam USA
31st March 1999
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Winner of Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award 1988
Paperback
160
Width 106mm, Height 170mm, Spine 11mm
91g
Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition
Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award forThe Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore,The Sance,The Name of the Game Was Murder, andThe Other Side of the Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.