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    The Callender Papers
    The Callender Papers
    The Callender Papers
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    The Callender Papers

    By Cynthia Voigt

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    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?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtheneum Books for Young Readers
    Release dateMar 26, 2013
    ISBN9781442489240
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    Cynthia Voigt

    Cynthia Voigt won the Newbery Medal for Dicey’s Song, the Newbery Honor Award for A Solitary Blue, and the National Book Award Honor for Homecoming, all part of the beloved Tillerman Cycle. She is also the author of many other celebrated books for middle grade and teen readers, including Izzy, Willy-Nilly, and Jackaroo. She was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1995 for her work in literature, and the Katahdin Award in 2004. She lives in Maine.

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    • 3/5
      I realize that this story is written in a tradition of gothic "orphan" tales, and it is well written, but the basic premise is flawed. Why would any responsible adult place a 12 year old child in this situation, and withhold some very basic information about possible risks? It irritated me to the point that I had to write this review.
    • 3/5
      Set in the late 19th century, 13 year old Jean uncovers a mystery. The plot is solid, although fairly straightforward -- there aren't any big twists here. This story is very Gothic, featuring orphans, desolate houses, brooding people, missing wills, and domestic servants with unsavory pasts (okay, just one of those, but still). While the mystery works just fine, overall this book leaves me a little cold. The characters and their situations are interesting enough, but there isn't anything that makes the reader care too deeply about them, and nothing in the book is particularly surprising.

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    • 4/5
      Young adult book that I never read as I young adult. As always, Voigt impresses with her intelligent writing and strong young characters. The solution to the mystery here is perhaps a bit predictable, but the deft characterization of the narrator makes up for it.

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