Kehret, Peg. The Stranger Next Door. New York City: Penguin Group, 2003. 163 pages. (Mystery)
The book that I choose for my book review this month is The Stranger Next Door. The main characters are Pete a cat, Alex, Rocky, Mr. and Mrs. Kendrill, Benjie, and Mr. Woolsey. In almost each chapter in the book it mentions all of this names. The story takes place in Valley View Estates a development that was just built. The problem in this story is that Rocky has to move away from all of his friends and change his name. Rocky moves to a place called Valley View Estates. He has to change his name because a drug dealer is going to kill him and his family. He is going to kill him and his family because drug dealing is illegal and Rocky’s mom is going to court about it. Rocky solves this problem by going to court against the drug dealer but he finds out that the drug dealer is his dad. Another interesting event in this novel is that Rocky’s house catches on fire during the night and Pete the cat wakes up Alex so Alex can wake up his family to call the fire department to come and put out the fire. The character that I despised was Mr. Woolsey because he is the guy that set Rocky’s house on fire. I also didn’t like him because he was always grumpy
Reviewed by: The Outsider
