title: Phoebe: A Novel (Sisters Series, Book 1)
author:  Marilyn Kaye 
description: Grade 5-7 When 11-year-old Phoebe returns from camp, she expects her whole family to be there to welcome her home. However, her family and friends seem preoccupied with other concerns. Her mother has taken a job, and her sisters are wrapped up in their own lives. Worst of all, Fee's friends have become immersed in make-up, clothes, and boys. Seeking refuge, Fee becomes a library helper, only to be plunged into a book-banning dispute. Explaining the negative effect of censorship on young readers is the most important thing this book does. Unfortunately, plot unity is threatened by superficial examination of too many characters' concerns. Perhaps this is to allow Phoebe to be a springboard for the following books in the series, but it serves this book poorly. Dialogue is unrealistic and the denouement too pat. Consider for purchase for the paperback rack only because of the interest that the censorship issue might have to preteens. Cindy Darling Codell, Belmont Junior High Schol, Winchester, Ky.<BR>Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # [**Praise for Phoebe Morgan**](9780008406950_Contents.xhtml#sec_1_re)
  
  
  ‘A cracking page-turner from Phoebe Morgan’
  
  
  **Cara Hunter, bestselling author of _All the Rage_**
  
  
  ‘Well-paced … Morgan has a particular skill for creating a vivid sense of
  place’
  
  
  **_Daily Mail_**
  
  
  ‘Dark, twisty plotting, compelling characterisation and an ending I didn’t see
  coming at all’
  
  
  **Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of _Blood Orange_**
  
  
  ‘Smart and sophisticated’
  
  
  **John Marrs, bestselling author of _The One_**
  
  
  ‘Utterly absorbing’
  
  
  **C.L. Taylor, bestselling author of _Strangers_**
  
  
  ‘Insightfully written’
  
  
  **Gillian McAllister, bestselling author of _How to Disappear_**
  
  
  ‘A spine-chilling tale’
  
  
  **_The Sun_**
  
  
  ‘Sublimely dark’
  
  
  **_Woman & Home_**
  
  
  ‘Morgan knows how to ramp up the tension’
  
  
  **_Woman_**
  
  
  ‘Kept me guessing until its chilling conclusion’
  
  
  **Lucy Clarke, author of