undercurrents

__Undercurrents__ by Willo Davis Roberts ISBN: 0-689-81671-5 c2002 232 pages

pages 23 and 29 where Nikki and Crystal have two run-ins
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

Nikki is fourteen when her mother dies. Eight months later her father informs the family that he is getting remarried. Nikki, her younger brother and older sister are stunned because they didn’t even know that their father was dating. When they meet Crystal, their father’s fiancee, things don’t go very well. Crystal is VERY young and very quiet. Things get even worse when the family, minus Nikki’s older sister, go off to California for a vacation. Nikki realizes that something is very wrong with Crystal and can’t get her father to recognize it, and then he leaves the family when an emergency comes up. Things get really out of hand....will Nikki’s father make it back in time to save everyone?
 * Summary:**

YA fiction: mystery; death; stepmothers; California; ocean

©Jennifer Lang - WDMS 2003