Are you in the house alone?

Description:

**Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker**. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy everyone refuses to take action against him and his powerful family. **A frightening drama that deals with heavy teen issues and the idea of justice *(or lack thereof)* from bestselling author Richard Peck.** ***''No one can quarrel with the question the book raises about why the law protects the rapist rather than the victim. This certainly deserves to be read and discussed.''*--(starred review) School Library Journal** ***Won the Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Award, 1978 / ALA Best Book for Young Adults***

subjects: YA Young adult,  Teen,  Teenagers,  Juvenile,  Fiction,  Literature,  Stories,  Books,  Detective,  Mystery,  Suspense,  Violence,  Stalking,  Rape,  Injustice,  David Bowie,  Bruce Springsteen,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Mystery and detective stories,  Children's fiction,  Rape, fiction

People: Victor Mature,  Carole Landis,  Betty Grable,  Rubenstein,  Chopin,  Othello

Places: Oldfield Village,  Parris Island,  South Carolina,  New York

Times: 1976