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The Specter

Joan Lowery Nixon

1982128 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1982
first published
  • 1982Delacorte Press · 184 pages · ENGISBN 9780440080633
  • 1983Granada · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780583306249
  • 1993Laurel Leaf · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780440977407
  • 1992Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780440803522
  • 2001Tandem Library · 184 pages · ENGISBN 9780613142670

A seventeen-year-old orphan with Hodgkin's disease becomes very involved with her new hospital roommate, a nine-year-old girl who insists that the man who killed her father is trying to kill her.

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Character focusSingle lead

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ThemesFamily
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