Finding Hope in Texas (33 page)

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The Long Sleep

by Caroline Crane

Hoping to make friends at her new school,
Maddie joins the newspaper staff. Its charismatic editor, Hank
Dalbeck, plans a controversial series on the right to die. This
causes so much discussion at their weekly meeting that Hank misses
his bus home and accepts a ride with Maddie. Before they can leave
the parking lot, someone fires a shot through the windshield.

Now Hank himself is in a coma, like the
people he wanted to write about. Who put him there? Was it someone
violently opposed to his ideas?

Maddie suspects Evan Steffers, her jealous
and possessive ex-boyfriend, who is supposed to be out of state.
Nevertheless, he's been stalking her, sending flowers, messages,
and threats. He's everywhere and nowhere, and her life is in
danger. Even attractive police officer Rick Falco can't protect her
from an unseen menace.

Maddie decides to carry on with the work that
got Hank shot. Digging though old news clippings, she begins to
understand the truth.

But it comes too late.

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Waiting for Natalie

by Dan Spanton

Natalie Bouchard, a high school student from
Portland, Maine, becomes convinced that her younger brother didn't
drown in an accident years before, but was kidnapped and taken to
Colombia. Without telling her parents, she flies to the Colombian
capitol city of Bogotá, accompanied by a nineteen year old friend,
Caleb Ferguson. A search of city streets and orphanages ends in
disappointment. Finally, as her grandfather arrives to take her
home, she gets a lead. Her little brother may have been taken by
illegal emerald miners to a highly dangerous area north of
Bogotá.