Night Cry

Description:

There are all kinds of fearful night noises on the backwoods farm where Ellen lives, often by herself because her salesman father travels a lot. But more than anything, Ellen is terrified of their horse, Sleet, who had thrown her brother a year ago and killed him. Then a local boy is kidnapped, and to Ellen the woods are full of devils and demons. One morning she is awakened before dawn by a cry--is it a "night cry" or the cry of the kidnapped child? Does Ellen have the courage to venture out into the dark and find out?

subjects: Fiction,  Mississippi in fiction,  Fear in fiction,  Kidnapping in fiction,  Kidnapping,  Farm life in fiction,  Fear,  Farm life,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Children's fiction,  Mississippi, fiction

Places: Mississippi