Pale Phoenix: A Time Travel Mystery

by Kathryn Reiss, Raquel Beattie (Narrator)

Miranda can't stand the new girl at school; there's something very unsettling about her. So she's not happy when sullen Abby comes to live with her family. Miranda can't trust this new housemate, but she also feels sorry for Abby, whom she hears crying every night. That pity and anger turn to shock when Miranda learns the girl's horrible secret - linked to a tragedy more than 300 years old.

Fifteen-year-old Miranda Browne, the extraordinary protagonist of Kathryn Reiss's first novel, Time Windows, returns for a new time travel adventure. This time, it's up to Miranda to figure out the truth and find an end to a lonely soul's eternal misery. 

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Published June 22, 2021

About the author

Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received B.A. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel, Time Windows.

Ms. Reiss is an award -winning author of 20 novels for kids and teens. She has been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and has been a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, The International Reading Association, Fresno County Office of Education, California Reading Association, The American Library Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English. She lives in Northern California with her husband and the last of her seven children still in the nest. She is a Full Professor of English at Mills College at Northeastern University, and also teaches in the low -residency MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at the University of Nevada, Reno.