The Door in the Lake - Softcover

Butts, Nancy

3.72

180 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590786319 ISBN 13: 9781590786314

Publisher: Front Street, Incorporated, 2008

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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.

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.

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Review:

"A story that young X-Files fans will snap up." -Kirkus Reviews

"A quick and exciting read." -School Library Journal

"Butts grounds the paranormal action in everyday life, and wraps up the story in a water-tight climax. An agreeable diversion for UFO enthusiasts." --"Publishers Weekly"

"The suspense builds to a surprise climax that leaves you wondering: If time can stop can it also go backward?" --"Booklist"

"A quick and exciting read." --"School Library Journal"

"A story that young X-Files fans will snap up." --Kirkus Reviews

"Butts grounds the paranormal action in everyday life, and wraps up the story in a water-tight climax. An agreeable diversion for UFO enthusiasts." --Publishers Weekly

The suspense builds to a surprise climax that leaves you wondering: If time can stop can it also go backward?' --Booklist

A quick and exciting read.' --School Library Journal

From the Back Cover:

Joey, he remembered. His name was Joey. Waking up felt like swimming to the surface of an underground river, the air above as black and airless as the water below. He had been drifting in the darkness for a long time before he realised who he was...

When Joey wakes up, he knows that something is wrong. He's lying on a soft, warm mattress in a hospital bed – yet he knows that the night before he went to sleep in his tent by the lake. But Joey doesn't realise that the night before was actually two years ago – when he vanished from the campsite without a trace...

Joey appears to be completely unchanged. As he struggles to recover lost memories, trying to fit back in to a world that has moved on without him, Joey realises that he needs help. But who can he possibly turn to?

Then the voices start calling...

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