Callender Papers

By: Cynthia Voigt

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Think carefully …

That's the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jean's guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. It's advice that proves valuable when Jean finds herself spending the summer far from home, sorting out family papers for the reclusive Mr. Thiel, a trustee of Aunt Constance's school and the widower of her childhood friend Irene Callender.

At Mr. Thiel's isolated country estate, Jean is surrounded by bewildering questions from the past. Why is there such hatred between Mr. Thiel and his late wife's brother? Was her death an accident? And what happened to their child, who disappeared after Irene Thiel's death? Do the answers lie in the Callender papers? And will searching for the answers put Jean's own life in jeopardy?

©1983 Cynthia Voigt (P)1992 Recorded Books

"Think Carefully!" & Enjoy the Suspense

I must say this 12 year old was given a lot of adult reasoning. More than I've seen in most. But maybe I should take into consideration the time period. It kept me on the edge of my seat. And even when I realized who she was kinda early on, it still kept my interest. Btw I'm African American, and I thought Mr. Thiel's reasonings was to help Jean make decisions, to be honest, and that meant taking into consideration all sides of an issue... any issue.

Not school appropriate

Leave slavery out of fictional books if it's not going to portray the ugliness of it.