Lois Duncan grew up in Sarasota, Florida. Her parents are Joseph and Lois Steinmetz. She started writing for the magazine calling all girls at ten years old. She wrote regularly from then on. Lois moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1962. She taught at the University of New Mexico on Journalism. She wrote 48 books from children to adults. Most of them were chosen for the best book for young adults. She has written novels and nonfiction books for adults. They aren’t just for adults. Many young people enjoy them to. She married Don Arquette. They had children who are creative. Robin Arquette is a singer. She makes CD’s with her mother called Songs of Childhood. Brett Arquette is also a writer. He has written two horror books and one a little …show more content…
Later Helen meets a boy named collie. He lives in the same apartment building as Helen. Julie meets a man named Bud. Ray and Julie go to the Greggs house to investigate. They met David’s sister Megan. She then tells Julie about how the wreck affected her family’s life. They found out that they didn’t just kill a boy, they destroyed a whole family. On the way out of the house Ray notices something about the house, that someone much taller than Megan was painting the house. After this they study the evidence. Later Helen walks into her apartment room, and hears a voice behind her. She is startled to see Collie sitting in a chair in the corner. He then proceeded to tell Helen how he knew. Helen tried to lock her self in the bathroom. While in there she tried to look for a way out. Collie tried to take the hinges off the door to get in. Helen Jumped out of the bathroom window, and fell and became unconscious. Meanwhile Julie is waiting for Bud to go to the movies. Her mother insists that she does not go, and Julie agrees. Bud came to the door, and convinced Julie to walk with him to his car. Bud then squeezed Julie’s hand, so she can’t get away. He told her how he found out, and that he was angered by the fact that she sent yellow roses. He said it was like sunshine, but there was none. He then put his hands around her throat and started strangling her. Ray came up and hit Bud on the head with a flash light. He found out from the paint on Bud’s hand from the Gregg’s house. The reason he didn’t kill Ray was because he said that losing Julie would be the worst punishment for
Adam tells Charles that they could go travel but hears Cathy covered in blood and dirt. They decide to take her in and clean her up. They call a docter and find out she is badly injured. Adam decides to take care of her and the doctor decides to tell the sherif abou the girl. Adam wrorries Adam helps Charles remove the rocks from the farm that the sherif is borthering Cathy iwth questions Cathy states that she cants remember her name and that t she has her thoughts mixed upl Cathy doesn't want the sherrif to know she set the fire and becomes scared. Adam cooked for cathy but Charles does not trust Cathy. He doesn't like how foreign she looks. He tells Cathy she has been talking in her sleep and he believes she is evil. He noticed Cathy’s nervouness and tells her that if she does not leave he will tell the sheriff. Cathy feares Charles but tells Adam that she is afriad that he lied about loosing her memory. SHe asks him to trust her and uses him to make him take care of her. Adam felt love for Cathy and asks her to marry him. cathy tells him noot to tell CHarles. Cathy decides to marry Adam because he was afraid and needed the protection/money. She knew she could c9ontrol and use
In Arrons room they find a sex tape of Josh and Courtney, they bring this to Wright imediatly. After Blake and Kenzie do this it turns into a awful mistake, they start to recieve threat texts from an unknown person. Kenzie figures out that Megan spiked Gigi’s drink and that is why she died earlier in the year. Arron tries to stab Blake to death and finally confesses killing Josh
Maya has a school assignment and needs to write about a person she would love to know better, she thinks about her biological parents but realizes that knows nothing about them. A.J and Amelia helped Maya figuring out a topic. Maya writes a figurative story about her mom, and her paper got elected for a story contest which she did not win. A.J feels disappointed, and wonders how she did not win. Lambianse dates with A.J's sister in law Ismay, and discovers that she had stolen Tamerlane. At the same time, A.J got to know that had developed a brain cancer that compromises his speaking ability. A.J got struck by the news and knew that had no money for the surgery, but Lambianse managed to convince Ismay returning Tamerlane anonymously. A.J
“Jack Bass” By Marina Rivera Jack Bass is a millionaire who comes from a very wealthy family. About a year ago, his older brother, Bart Bass, passed away. Bart left his son, Chuck Bass, in control of his company called Bass Industries. Jack and Chuck have had a lot of problems in the past. Chuck had a rough past of losing his mom as a kid, drinking, doing drugs, and never feeling loved.
On top of that, a new girl at school has gone missing and is possibly murdered. Soon she gets caught up in the mix of it and the messages begin playing with her head and heart. The climax of the story is when Clare is kidnapped at her school dance in the back of a trunk with her worst enemy. In the end the story is resolved when Clare finds out who her stalker is and meets her brother. Her brother uses his power to sense something is wrong and drives to the house his gift is telling him to save his sister.
Colin decides to kill Summer, Violet, Poppy, and Rose in the cellar as the police are arriving. Summer pushes Rose out of the way to defend her and Colin’s “...face turned hard as he realized I wasn’t going to go down without a fight” (310). After everything Summer has been through, she became more confident. She is proving to Colin that she isn’t scared of him anymore. With all the chaos happening around her, her conscience is saying, “If I was going to die down here, it was going to be trying to escape with Poppy, Rose, and Violet” (310). After all the trauma she encountered, she is still determined to not give up. If she was going to die, she wanted to die knowing that she tried everything she could possibly do to survive. She didn’t only want to save herself, she was willing to stand up for the other girls as well. Summer shields the girls and realizes, “...I felt strong now. My hate for him was busting from every pore in my body” (312). Being locked in the cellar for seven months made her a stronger person. She isn’t going to let one person ruin her life. All her anger and hatred for him is emitting from her body and she is ready to fight back. As Colin swings at her she, “...clenched her jaw, determined...and shoved her fist in his face” (312). Summer was finally ready to win. Her hopes of surviving were coming true and she no longer has to live a miserable life. She can now go home knowing she stood up for herself and her fight for survival were officially
The girls are allowed record video on DVDs to their family. They really have a rough time trying to survive. The kidnappers have guns and are not right in the head. Amy really begins to freak out. She tries to save her and Kendra’s life with all they have. One night Amy tries for the escape. She grabs Kendra and runs for it. She has some troubles and does not succeed. Meanwhile, the police try to investigate the clues, but they are running out of
Jackie was outside in the back playing with his friends Ella and Lily he has more friends they are Victor,Jackson, and Nolan. Oh yeah and how could I forget he has a puppy named Bloom. Anyway His father Harrison called Nora to turn on the weather channel. Nora turned it on and the weather man said that there was a severe storm threat not much chance of a tornado. Nora was still on the phone with Harrison she said that it was a severe storm threat not much chance of a tornado. “He might be wrong” Harrison said. “Don’t worry about it too much” said Nora and she hung up. Jackie is outside playing pirates in his play house Ella and Lily they are captured princesses then Victor and Jackson walked through the gate one was going to be Jackie’s partner which was Victor the other one
After battling with death, Rosey opens her eyes and started breathing heavily. In her mind death became a myth. Rosey looks at everyone, but couldn’t hear anything all she heard was a baby crying and a yell of Bruce’s voice “How could you be pregnant,” “Athena is the only one that be carrying my child, "said Bruce. Everyone looked outside and notices it's already getting dark. Everyone grabs their things and heads home, Athena and Susie stay back in their apartment and look at each other. They both go upstairs and go to their bedrooms. Beep-beep a sound of an alarm goes off in Susie’s head “The next day already” said Susie. Suzie whispers to herself and says “What happened yesterday?’’The next day after Susie had her little accident, the girls were at school. Lauren yells "What does your schedule look like India?” "I have AP Macro, AP Lit, Calculus & Yearbook." says India As they were comparing classes a short nerdy girl ran into India making India break a nail. "Omg I'm so sorry" says the girl "You gone pay for this bitch!" India shouts. "Don't start mess with her India "said Lauren. "You don't want her to tell her dad the principal that we should get ten days do you,"said Lauren. India looks at the needy girl
Jessie comes and forces her to move to the other side of the room that they are sharing and so many other vulgar things. She killed her dog, pushed her down concrete stairs, stole her boyfriend, and started a fire in the school bathroom with Emily locked in. Emily and Nancy talk about how they need to stop Jessie and during the family camping trip is a perfect time. When they get there, someone throws Emily into a deep grave and hits her with a shovel. She looked up and saw it was Nancy and Nancy said that it was her the whole time and that she hates Emily because Emily saved herself and not her dad 3 years ago.
Things get hot when Julie’s ex-boyfriend gets paroled early. He’s out to even the score and get Julie back. Teaming up with the abusive
Natasha has been feeling like Hayley and Jenny don’t want to be friends anymore, so she goes back to Becca. Together, Natasha and Becca try to find out how she got in the river. Later on, everyone was at play practice. Tasha wasn’t feeling good so she sat out. Becca’s best friend Hannah stepped in her place. When Tasha went to go move the overhead light, it came crashing down over Hannah. It killed her. Both the police and the girls had decided that Hayley and Jenny had led Tasha into the river and did something to the light for it to fall. The two girls were sent to prison and counseling for murder and attempted murder. After that, everything was going fine until Becca started to get a little suspicious. She asked the police if she could look over all the evidence again. She then came to the conclusion that Natasha had done all of it. She had thrown herself into the river and framed Hayley and Jenny, and she loosened the light so that it would fall. The police did not believe her. One night, Becca and Tasha went out into the woods. Becca was going to try and get her to confess. Natasha did end up confessing, but then she
“Who killed your parents Jackie? What is going on!”, I yelled as I realized I was so out of the loop. This was all too much for one moment. First the gash on her neck and now I find out her parents are dead. I started to wonder if she was crazy, how could they be dead and she just wanted to run away? Something had to be wrong, this could not be happening.
Lois Duncan was raised in Sarasota, Florida with her parents and her little brother. Lois got interested in magazines at a young age mostly because her parents were photographers. At ten years old Lois had her own story in a magazine called ,calling all girls. After high school in 1962 she moved to New Mexico to teach at the journalism department for the University of New Mexico. She also married and had five children and has 48 books in her name and one of those books is based on a true life story that has happened to her 5th child Kaitlyn. The book is called Who Killed My Daughter?. Now Lois is 80 years old and her husband is deceased.
Later that week a drone big enough to hold a human being landed in the front courtyard early in the morning right as Avery had just woken up. She rushed downstairs and stood listening outside the doorway of the old and forgotten memory room. When Avery heard the footsteps of Ms.Vallery and Ben and decided it was the moment for her scheme, because she had to do it before Ms.Vallery erased his memory. So she pulled down a string that caused the whole china cabinet to come crashing down and send Ms.Vallery and all of the half sleeping children sprinting towards it. Then Avery tiptoed into the memory room where she found Ben scared and defenceless and he asked,”Where am I”, to which Avery replied,”Ms.Valley’s children's home.” She also told him that they don't have much time so Avery started spitting out questions left and right not giving ben enough time to answer. Then Avery asked,” is there an outside world?”, “Yes”, replied Ben as Ms.Vallery bursted through the doors and realizing what Avery had done, she locked her in her