Then, when Stacy goes missing after a date with Johnny one stormy winter night, the family are persecuted by the press, reviled and ostracized by their neighbors and friends, and find their lives forever changed. Johnny spends all his free time with Stacy, much to the detriment of his male friendships and his schoolwork. Stacy is rich, spoiled, intense, and obsessive. When this girl, Stacy Lemke starts going out with Johnny, the reader realizes that this relationship can only be termed unhealthy. When she meets a beautiful schoolmate of Johnny’s she has a ‘girl crush’, so typical of girls her age who look up to an older, popular, and pretty girl. Short for her age and into books and spelling bees, Kristen adores her father and big brother. And… our narrator, the youngest daughter, is nine year old Kristen. Emilie, the middle sister, is popular at school and is in the band. Johnny who is seventeen, helps his Dad on the farm and is a high school wrestling champ with college prospects. Living in the big, main house are John, the hard-working farmer father, the mother who works as a nurse, and their three children. The grandfather, a widower, lives on the farm in his own small house. Suspicion and circumstance serve to decimate a Wisconsin farm family in this memorable debut by Paula Treick DeBoard.Ī typical rural family, the Hammarstroms run a 160 acre dairy farm.
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