A thief in the house of memory

Tim Wynne-Jones First published 2004

About this book

The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth about the mother who suddenly left when he was ten.

Subjects

  • canada, fiction
  • canadian young adult fiction
  • children's fiction
  • dysfunctional families
  • family life, fiction
  • family problems
  • fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • juvenile fiction
  • memory
  • mothers
  • mothers, fiction
  • ontario, fiction
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 4
  • reading level-grade 5
  • reading level-grade 6
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9
  • teenage boys