Double Take

Sugar & Spice #9

by Janet Quin-Harkin

Chrissy must spend her senior year in San Francisco after her parents' Iowa home is wiped out by a tornado, and Caroline can't believe how enthusiastic her farm-girl cousin is about spending another year in the city

Mass Market Paperback

First published November 12, 1987

About the author

Janet Quin-Harkin is a pseudonym of Rhys Bowen

Rhys turned to writing children’s books under her married name, Janet Quin-Harkin. Her first picture book was an immediate success and won several awards. More picture books followed, then her agent asked her to write a book for young adults. This was a turning point in Rhys’s career. Her first young adult novel was an instant hit. By her third she was selling half a million copies. Many more popular YA novels followed until Rhys decided she had said all she wanted to say about teenage love and angst, and she turned her real love—mysteries.

Reviews

[Lauri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't remember Chrissy being so much like an over grown puppy when I first read the books. I find it hard to believe that such a sweet girl would be so inconsiderate of her cousin's feelings. In this book, the girls are getting ready for Chrissy to go back to Iowa after a year in SanFran. Her home gets hit by a tornado, so she's staying another year. How do you think this will affect Caroline's plans to be senior activity coordinator?