Threshold

A strange girl speaks of being charged by an angel to battle monsters and claims she cannot do it alone. She needs Chance's help.

Chance Matthews has suffered enough tragedies. The latest--her grandfather's death--has left her shaken, convinced that she will always be alone. What she needs now is time--time to recover, time to determine what her future will be. What she doesn't need is a strange girl with alabaster skin who knows things about Chance she can't possibly know.

Chance doesn't believe in angels. Or monsters. But among the artifacts left by her geologist grandparents, there lies a fossil of a creature that couldn't possibly have ever existed.

But it did. And still does...

Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 11/01/2001
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.97w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780451458582

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 18
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 85320 / Threshold: A Novel of Deep Time


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2001 pg. 1153
Booklist 09/01/2001 pg. 58
Publishers Weekly 09/17/2001 pg. 59
Library Journal 11/15/2001 pg. 101
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2002 pg. 52
Kliatt 05/01/2002 pg. 28

About the Author
Caitlín R. Kiernan is a vertebrate paleontologist and author of many fantasy novels, including Silk, The Drowning Girl, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds, and The Red Tree. Her award-winning short fiction has been collected in six volumes.