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Freaky Green Eyes

by Joyce Carol Oates

New York: HarperTempest, 2003

341 pages

Dust Jacket Blurb

Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you.

It began with me a year ago this past July. A few weeks after my fourteenth birthday. When Freaky Green Eyes came into my heart.

When her parents separate, Franky Pierson has no trouble deciding whose side she's on. After all, her mother is the one who chose to leave. And when her mother is suddenly reported missing, Franky believes she's simply pulled a disappearing act and deserted their family for good. But a part of Franky, a part she calls Freaky Green Eyes, knows that something is wrong. And it's up to Freaky to open Franky's eyes to the truth.

Excerpt

"Nature has mysterious ways, Franky. But somehow it all makes sense."

I knew Aunt Vicky had been trained as a biologist and ecologist. Still, I was stubborn and had to say, "Maybe nature doesn't make sense at all, Aunt Vicky. Maybe people like you want to think it does."

Three years later, I thought of that conversation. Aunt Vicky insisting that things make sense and turn out basically right, the way she was saying that, thirteen days after Krista Connor and Mero Okawa were reported missing, things might turn out all right for them, too.

Reviews

Detroit Free Press, September 4, 2003
Boston Herald, September 21, 2003, p. A23

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A Guide to Teaching JCO's Young Adult Literature

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