The Clearing

By Dorothy Reynolds Miller

Book Overview

Amanda and her friends set out to discover long-hidden secrets in the clearing where little Bucky Mead lost his life ten years ago. This suspense-filled thriller was winner of the 1997 Mystery Writers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689809972
• ISBN13: 9780689809972
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.6" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The Clearing by Dorothy R. Miller

I read this book in 4th grade and i remeber thinking it was thrilling i couldnt stop reading it and the ending just completly startled me!!!:-)

Awesome

The Clearing is a very exciting book. I would definately recomend it to anyone who loves a good mystery

My review is about everything that is good about this book

The Clearing is a really good book for about the 5th grade level of childrens reading and it is good for someone who likes mysteries.I read the book and it is really exciting.It is about a girl named Amanda who goes and lives with her cousin Elinore.She realizes that Elinore thinks she is the ruler of the little community she lives in;The Clearing.There is a mysterious man who everyone calls Spook.Everyone thinks that Spook killed a little 4 year old named Bucky so many years ago but then Amanda thinks differently after she talks to and befriends an older girl named Cynthia and Amanda wants to find out who did.Her curiousity brings in another boy,Amanda's other cousin who lives in the Clearing;Nelson.Together Nelson,Amanda,and Cynthia uncover the truth to the mystery.