The Mystery of Hollow Places (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062373342)

The Mystery of Hollow Places is a gorgeously written, stunningly original novel of love, loss, and identity, from debut author Rebecca Podos.

All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It's the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist; she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a woman who was always possessed of a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as "troubled waters."

Now Imogene is seventeen, and her father, a famous author of medical mysteries, has struck out in the middle of the night and hasn't come back. Neither Imogene's stepmother nor the police know where he could've gone, but Imogene is convinced he's looking for her mother. And she decides it's up to her to put to use the skills she's gleaned from a lifetime of reading her father's books to track down a woman she's only known in stories in order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she's carried with her for her entire life.

Author: Rebecca Podos
ISBN-10: 006237334X
ISBN-13: 9780062373342
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 179983 / Mystery of Hollow Places


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 10/12/2015
Booklist 10/15/2015 pg. 56
School Library Journal 11/01/2015 pg. 120
Romantic Times 02/01/2016 pg. 38 - Excellent
Voice of Youth Advocates 02/01/2016 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2016 - Book Of Special Distinction
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2016 pg. 137 - Recommended, Satisfactory