Talking to Strangers
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This month's cover features Jean Ure's new book Faces at the Window (see the Jean Ure Authorgraph) with a photograph by Oliver Hunter. The book is published by Corgi Freeway and we are grateful to Transworld Publishers for their help in using this illustration.
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Talking to Strangers
This is a moralistic story, but like the best preachers it never lectures its readers. Caroline Mitchell, aged 10, is murdered: last seen talking to strangers. Maggie Kennedy, from the secure base of a loving family, is curious to discover who killed Caroline. There are some shocking twists to the plot but the book never relies on histrionics, rather on contrast and comparison. We see, after all, only what is wrong when it's set against what is right. Highly recommended reading for Year 7 and beyond.
