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While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation.... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Rhonda Farr (Ronnie): the narrator of the book, the story is told through her eyes; daughter of Clem and Justine
- Warren: Pat's nephew; he had hust finished his freshman year at college
- Ernie Florucci: second grade daughter of Trudy who was kidnapped from their car as Trudy rushed into the Mini Mart
- Clem Farr: Rhonda's father; Justine's husband
- Laura Lee Clark: Suzy's grandma; Tock's(Greta) mother; brags about having been a movie star
- Lizzy Shale (Cornelia): Rhonda's closest freind from childhood who was disappeared when she was a freshman in high school; brother Peter; mother Aggie; father Daniel
- Trudy Florucci: Ernie's mother; a widow
- Aggie Shale: Lizzy and Peter's mother; wife of Daniel
- Pat Hebert: owned the Mini Mart
- Justine Farr: Rhonda's mother; married to Clem
- Crowley: detective on the kidnapping case of Ernie
- Suzy Shale: second grade daughter of Peter and Tock; granddaughter of Laura Lee; friend of Ernie
- Katy: Trudy's niece
- Jim: Pat's huband; pumps gas at the Mini Mart
- Ella Starkee: kidnapped child from Virginia that was found
- Carl: mechanic who worked at Pat's Mini Mart
- Tock (Greta Clark): Peter's wife; daughter of Laura Lee: she played the crocodile in the play Peter Pan thus gettinng the nickname "Tock"; mother of Suzy
- Dave Lancaster: boss at the mill at the time that Clem lost his fingers; Aggie's uncle
- Kimberly: Add a description of this character.
- Shirley Bowes: she used a dower switch to try to find lost children
- Peter: Lizzy's brother; father Daniel; mother Aggie
- Daniel: Lizzy and Peter's father; was epiletic; played Peter Rabbitt for Easter when Lizzy, Peter and Rhonda were young; disappeared 12 years later and then daughter disappeared three years later; he had a business idea to build coffins
- Birdie: Rebecca
- Marsha: Psychic
- Sal: Ernie's father; Trudy's husband; lost his arm in an accident and committed suicide 6 months later
- Rebecca: Pat's little sister hity by a logging truck; Birdie
- Carl: worked at Pat's ; saw Peter the day of the kidnapping at a motel in town with a women and a young girl
- Kimberly
- Peter the Rabbit
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First Sentence edit
Dive, Dive, Dive! shouted Suzy as she clutched the old Chevy's cracked red and white steering wheel, jerking it back and forth in her hands, yanking hard on the turn signal lever to bring the ship down.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jennifer McMahon (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Mary Schuck (Designer) - Cover design
- Jock Stuges (Photographer) - Cover photo
- Drea Thew (Photographer) - Author photo
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harpercollins
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0061445886
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Harpercollins
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0061445886
Page Count: 272
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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