When Joey Finney was 12, he and his family went camping near Smokewater Lake-and Joey vanished. Now, two years later, he has reappeared. But something's stopping him from settling back in to his old life. Joey still looks 12.  He feels sick all the time and hears voices in his head. No one believes him when he tells the truth: Joey was abducted by aliens... "A story that young X-Files fans will snap up." -Kirkus Reviews Awards: ( Nutmeg Children's Book Award Master List( Sequoyah Young Adult Award Master List

The Door in the Lake

Children's Books

Butts, Nancy

Literature & Fiction

Collins Voyager

After vanishing without a trace one night during a camping trip, twelve-year-old Joey reappears two years later, showing no signs of having aged and carrying memories of a strange light in the sky. Reprint.

The Door In the Lake

Puffin Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Scholastic. Inc.

<p>Joseph Finney disappeared from a tent in a national forest and mysteriously reappeared two years later. He can't remember what happened to him but even more disturbing is that he doesn't look a day older than when he left. Chronologically fourteen, he looks and sounds and feels like a twelve-year-old boy. Joey battles strange physical conditions: a persistent runny nose that the doctor says is leaking brain fluid, a ringing in his ears that turns into a voice telling him to come to the door in the lake, and periodic seizures during which he seems to remember being sucked into a vortex of light at the campground where he disappeared. Then Joey turns to two college students who contact him via the Internet to suggest that he was kidnapped by aliens. He doesn't want to accept their explanation, but as his physical condition deteriorates there seems to be no choice but to return to the lakeside camp where he disappeared and confront what happened to him.<br><br>A cross between The Twilight Zone and The X-files, this ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers examines that area of the human psyche where the body and mind meet - or don't - and where identity resides.</p>

Front Street, Incorporated

Miranda is deaf and her closest friend Timothy has disappeared at sea. Without him, communication is difficult, often embarrassing, sometimes impossible. Miranda is left alone, alienated, and unsure of herself. Thrown into the company of Boone, a neighbor who helps her aunt keep up the yard, Miranda struggles with her loyalty to Timothy and her desperate need for someone who accepts her on her own terms, as Timothy did. When she and Boone discover they are having the same dreams about a mysterious island and an even more mysterious presence, Miranda must choose between the ideal world Timothy represented and the confusion and pain of the hearing world, opening herself to the risky, awkward relationships that it offers.

Cheshire Moon

Teen & Young Adult

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The Door in the Lake

The Door In the Lake

The Door in the Lake

The Door in the Lake

Cheshire Moon