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Reality Check by Peter Abrahams

Reality Check

by Peter Abrahams

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  • Apr 2009, 336 pages
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QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest—and smartest—girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career.

But bad things come in threes—or in Cody's case, sixes and twelves—and the worst is yet to come. While limping through town one day, Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex, has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to Cody the morning of her disappearance. With that as his guide, Cody sets out to find out what happened. Once in Vermont, he unearths the town's secrets—and finds out that football isn't the only thing he's good at.

Reality Check is another edge-of-your-seat suspense novel by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author of Down the Rabbit Hole.

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"Cody and most of the teens he encounters - both out west and in Vermont - are complex characters with believable motivations and faults, plot issues aside. Ages 12-up." - Publishers Weekly

"A solid mystery." - School Library Journal

"The climax is unexpected…readers will be frantically turning pages." - Kirkus Reviews

"Starred Review. A fine thriller that is pitched to attract everyone from reluctant readers to sports fans to romantic idealists. " - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)

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Peter Abrahams Author Biography

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Peter Abrahams is the best-selling author of A Perfect Crime, The Tutor, The Fan, and Lights Out, for which he received an Edgar® Award nomination; and Down The Rabbit Hole, a novel for children. He lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with his wife and children. Writing as Spencer Quinn, he is also the author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series that starts with Dog On It (2009) with the latest book Scents and Sensibility that was published in 2015.

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