The Postcard

By Abbott, Tony

Publishers Summary:
While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to help clean out his recently-deceased grandmother's house, thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard which leads him on an adventure that blends figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.

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ISBN
978-0-31601-172-3
Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on April 1, 2008

Gr 5-8 Retirement mecca St. Petersburg provides the perfect backdrop for Abbot's mystery. Jason, 13, flies down to Florida to help his dad settle his grandmother's estate. Worried about his parents' marriage and disgusted with the heat and totally bored, he is intrigued when he finds an old postcard of his grandmother's. A hotel on it is the same one that appears in a mystery in an old magazine that he also finds in her house. The stories star someone called Marnie, a na...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2008

Before his grandmother's funeral, Jason finds a postcard whose clues lead him to chapters of a pulp mystery stashed at local Florida la...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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