num_pages: 192
description: Trying to escape the vicious King Kobra gang and troubled life at home, eighth graders Barnie and Teresa flee the city. With only four dollars between them, they hop a bus, hoping to find a new life at the end of the line. Destination: Paradise Park. But Paradise Park turns out to be a  cement-covered suburban shopping mall--not quite the paradise they had hoped for.With no money and no home to retum to, they are forced to stay. And Paradise Park takes them in--in more ways than  one. Barnie and Teresa spend their days and nights in the climate-controlled consumer paradise of a large department store. And just when they think they can live there unnoticed forever, Teresa and Barnie find that even Paradise Park has its secrets.  Even in the dead of night, they are far from alone....
language: English
title: Secrets of the Shopping Mall
titlecomplete: Secrets of the Shopping Mall
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Juvenile, Contemporary, Teen, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy, Adventure
ratings_count: 482
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Laurel Leaf