Jane Leslie Conly is the daughter of author Robert C. O'Brien and an award-winning author in her own right. She started her literary work by finishing the manuscript for her father's Z for Zachariah in 1974 after his death. Her first own book, Racso and the Rats of NIMH, was published in 1986, and is a sequel to her father's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Her Crazy Lady! won the Newbery Honor; Murder Afloat was named to the 2011-2012 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Master List. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her family.
~~tag-text~~
Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts: Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a ... SEE MORE