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Romeo Blue
Silver Medal Winner:Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up) -Fiction (2013)
When Flissy Bathburn's parents first dropped her off in Bottlebay, Maine, she hated everything about it. She hated the big gloomy house she was to live in. She hated meeting her long-lost and highly eccentric relatives. And most of all, she hated knowing that she was safe in America while her parents faced the guns of WWII in Europe.
But a year has passed now, and Flissy has grown to love her life in Bottlebay -- and especially Derek, the boy the Bathburns have adopted. Then a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives, and soon he's asking all sorts of strange questions. Flissy has a nose for trouble. Has Derek's new father come to take him away . . . or is there something even more sinister happening in Bottlebay, Maine?
But a year has passed now, and Flissy has grown to love her life in Bottlebay -- and especially Derek, the boy the Bathburns have adopted. Then a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives, and soon he's asking all sorts of strange questions. Flissy has a nose for trouble. Has Derek's new father come to take him away . . . or is there something even more sinister happening in Bottlebay, Maine?
Book Details
- Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
- Publish Date: May 28th, 2013
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.60in - 1.18in - 0.91lb
- EAN: 9780545443609
- Recommended age: 08-12
- Categories: • Historical - United States - 20th Century• Mysteries & Detective Stories• Family - General (see also headings under Social Themes)
About the Author
Phoebe Stone is the beloved and acclaimed author of several novels for middle grade, including The Romeo and Juliet Code, which was hailed by the Boston Globe as "quite simply the best novel for young readers . . . since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." She received four starred reviews for The Boy on Cinnamon Street, and another star for her novel Deep Down Popular. Booklist awarded a starred review to Romeo Blue, the follow-up to The Romeo and Juliet Code, calling it "compelling, and with plenty of heart and soul." Phoebe and her husband live in Middlebury, Vermont.
Praise for this book
"Coming of age in a time of war, feeling both loved and abandoned, clever and yet perplexed, Flissy is an engaging protagonist." - The Wall Street Journal
"Compelling, and with plenty of heart and soul." - Booklist, starred review
Romeo Blue is the best sort of sequel: one you didn't know you wanted but are ever so grateful to have...Both lyrical and propulsive." - Horn Book Magazine, starred review
"Charmingly lyrical and also notably authentic..." - Kirkus Reviews
"Readers will get caught up in this story of young love, espionage, and war-torn families while still far away from the frontlines of the battlefield." - School Library Journal
Praise for The Romeo and Juliet Code:
Delightful - The Wall Street Journal
Phoebe Stone's The Romeo and Juliet Code is quite simply the best novel for young readers I've read since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. - The Boston Globe
Stone's intricate and lyrical novel, set during WWII, resembles The Secret Garden in all the best ways. - Publishers Weekly, starred review
Flissy is a kick, her ever-so-proper manners and stuffy Briticisms belied by her abundant curiosity and consequent meddling. - The Horn Book Review, starred review
"Compelling, and with plenty of heart and soul." - Booklist, starred review
Romeo Blue is the best sort of sequel: one you didn't know you wanted but are ever so grateful to have...Both lyrical and propulsive." - Horn Book Magazine, starred review
"Charmingly lyrical and also notably authentic..." - Kirkus Reviews
"Readers will get caught up in this story of young love, espionage, and war-torn families while still far away from the frontlines of the battlefield." - School Library Journal
Praise for The Romeo and Juliet Code:
Delightful - The Wall Street Journal
Phoebe Stone's The Romeo and Juliet Code is quite simply the best novel for young readers I've read since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. - The Boston Globe
Stone's intricate and lyrical novel, set during WWII, resembles The Secret Garden in all the best ways. - Publishers Weekly, starred review
Flissy is a kick, her ever-so-proper manners and stuffy Briticisms belied by her abundant curiosity and consequent meddling. - The Horn Book Review, starred review