How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
Contributors: Comport, Sally Wern, ill.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 16Apr2002
Place of publication: New York, NY USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780060297718
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Family life -- Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.; Cartoons and comics -- Fiction.; Recluses -- Fiction.; Libraries -- Fiction.; Mystery and detective stories.; Northwest, Pacific -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.
Table of contents: title: Margaret always knew that her family was a little strange. Not that she was exactly normal herself After all, she did do her sixth-grade science report on a pack of killer Chihuahuas. Even stranger was the fact that Margaret's mother never seemed to talk about anything anymore -- not since the mysterious drowning death of Margaret's father three years earlier.; title: Then Margaret's mother takes her and her little sister, Sophie, to an old abandoned mansion and places a FOR SALE BY OWNER sign in the front yard. But who could have lived there? And why was her mother keeping it all such a secret?; title: Convinced that her father's death, her mother's silence, and the mansion are somehow related, Margaret returns to the spooky old house alone, determined to make sense of three clues: a swimming medal, a key, and a strange, handwritten comic book about a boy who turned into a rat. With the help of Boyd, the lonely, comic-book-obsessed boy next door, she discovers that truth can be stranger than fiction -- depending upon who's telling the story.; title: Cover and illustrations by Sally Wern Comport