{"product_id":"the-boy-in-the-burning-house-9780374408879","title":"The Boy in the Burning House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Edgar Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo years after his father's mysterious disappearance, Jim Hawkins is coping -- barely. Underneath, he's frozen in uncertainty and grief. What did happen to his father? Is he dead or just gone? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose. Moody, provocative, she's the bad-girl stepdaughter of Father Fisher, Jim's father's childhood friend and the town pastor, and she shocks Jim out of his stupor when she tells him her stepfather is a murderer. \"Don't you want to know who he murdered?\" she asks. Jim doesn't. Ruth Rose is clearly crazy -- a sixteen-year-old misfit. Yet something about her fierce conviction pierces Jim's shell. He begins to burn with a desire for the truth, until it becomes clear that it may be more unsettling than he can bear. What is the real meaning of the strange prayers Father Fisher intones behind the door of his private sanctuary? Why does Ruth Rose suddenly disappear? And what really happened thirty years ago when a boy died in a burning house? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Burning House\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2002 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Wynne-Jones'\u003c\/b\u003es critically acclaimed fiction includes \u003ci\u003eSome of the Kinder Planets\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe-Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003e Award for fiction. He lives in Perth, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872557994258,"sku":"9780374408879","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52ce732e-7dc6-45df-bc54-f80d2f6867e4.jpg?v=1737901902","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-boy-in-the-burning-house-9780374408879","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}