Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
It really was scary. See there--a book can be scary without chainsaws, axes, buckets of blood or ghoulish creatures that strip a man's flesh like a rabbit's.
How would you feel if your cousin came to live with you and started to steal your pink dress, your bedroom, your boyfriend...and then your family?
Powerless. Isn't the lack of power at the root of all our deepest fears?
Ms. Skurnick remembers it from her pre-teen years as a book where she totally identified with the heroine--her envy of the Arkansas cousin's shape; her anger at her boyfriend's betrayal, her pain at....something I won't say. If you're going to read it then I don't want to give away the plot and if you're not, it will just make you sad.
My verdict is...read it if you're a teenager and you think it sounds interesting. If you're an adult, only if you're going to write teen fiction. It's an lesson in the art of keeping things moving.
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