num_pages: 261
description: Think carefully...  That's the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jean's guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. It's advice that proves valuable when Jean finds herself spending the summer far from home, sorting out family papers for the reclusive Mr. Thiel, a trustee of Aunt Constance's school and the widower of her childhood friend Irene Callender.  At Mr. Thiel's isolated country estate, Jean is surrounded by bewildering questions from the past. Why is there such hatred between Mr. Thiel and his late wife's brother? Was her death an accident? And what happened to their child, who disappeared after Irene Thiel's death? Do the answers lie in the Callender papers? And will searching for the answers put Jean's own life in jeopardy?
language: English
title: The Callender Papers
titlecomplete: The Callender Papers
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Juvenile, Teen, Mystery Thriller, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 1010
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Juvenile
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers