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Peligro, the sign said. Danger-- because the road that led up to the house twisted sharply around the hill.
One of the Hispanic workers had made the sign as the house was being prepared for its new owner. When Rosalind Slaymaster was finally ready to live there, everyone in the small Pennsylvanis town had come to call the place Peligro.
It was like Mrs. Slaymaster to leave it that way.
She was said to be the richest woman in Bucks County. When Edgar Tobbit first met her, he thought she didn't look rich, but it didn't take him very long to realize she wasn't like anyone else, either.
Neither was her teenage niece, Julie, who arrived at school every day in a white Hummer.
And neither was Peale, the two-foot leather mannequin who had his own wardrobe of tailor-made suits; his own passport, bedroom, and television.
Peale was said to grant wishes and make dreams come true.
"What's Peligro like?" Edgar's friend asks him. And Edgar invites him to a party there on Christmas Eve.
That is how Neal Kraft and Julie first meet.
The threesome quickly become fast friends and, in a short while, change one another's lives, barely aware of the old secrets that inspire Mrs. Slaymaster's revenge on the town.
Through it all Peale sits among them with his green glass eyes bright and watchful, as though he knows what's coming.
What Became of Her is partly based on some real-life characters the author has never been able to forget.
Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL)
- Sales Rank: #6399670 in Books
- Published on: 2000-04
- Released on: 2000-04-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .91" h x 5.86" w x 8.58" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Amazon.com Review
M.E. Kerr is one of the 10 big names in young-adult fiction, and she has written many highly praised books, most notably Gentlehands and Deliver Us from Evie. What Became of Her, Kerr's 12th teen novel, is a big, sprawling saga of two intricately related generations in the ironically named town of Serenity. At the center of the story is the fabulously wealthy Rosalind Slaymaster, who has left her ranch in Texas to return to the family mansion called Peligro, or Danger. There she entertains lavishly, exerting her will over the town where she was humiliated as a girl. As the teenage Rose Fitch she was taunted for her stutter, her innocence, her work at the Dare funeral home, her mentally handicapped father. As Rosalind Slaymaster, she is tough and tall in her jeans and boots. Still, she is strangely attached to a two-foot leather mannequin she calls Peale--and is harsh and cold with Julie, the teenage girl she has adopted to keep the doll company. On another level, 16-year-old E.C. Tobbit and his light-fingered friend Neal form an alliance with Julie that undercuts and is linked to the events of the previous generation. A scorecard of characters helps, but teen readers who are willing to pay attention will be rewarded with many "Aha!" experiences in this challenging but ultimately satisfying novel. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell
From Publishers Weekly
HRosalind Slaymaster has returned to her hometown of Serenity, Pa., with a chip on her shoulder "the size of Apollo 11." Now the richest woman in Bucks County, she's ruffling feathers by renovating the town's 150-year-old amusement park, under the condition that it be renamed after her deceased father. After 16-year-old E.C. (Edgar Cayce) Tobbit (whose protect button "buzzed for deer done out of their woods by developers, dogs tied to trees under the hot sun and occasionally for a two-footed wretch as well") and his mother dine with the wealthy widow, he takes Slaymaster's gawky, unpopular adoptive niece, Julie, under his wing and finds himself unwittingly drawn into her aunt's deeply troubled childhood. Kerr (Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!; Deliver Us from Evie) has long championed the outsider in her novels and, in her latest, offers a level of depth and sophistication found in the best of her fiction. After E.C. introduces Julie to his newfound friend, the roguish kleptomaniac charmer Neal, the trio soon forms a tight bond. In an ironic twist, that bond weakens when Neal's flaw gets the best of him and E.C.'s misguided good intentions backfire. Told primarily in E.C.'s homespun first-person narrative, the novel breaks mid-story to Rosalind's heartbreaking childhood diary, illuminating the enigmatic character's motivation and her unseemly tie to her inanimate dummy, Peale--a gift from her dead husband. Kerr, with a masterful, invisible hand, quietly adds layers of meaning to a seductive, psychologically riveting story. (May)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Grade 7-10-In the town of Serenity, PA, things are far from serene. Former outcast Rosalind Slaymaster has returned to live in the community that treated her cruelly when she was a stuttering teenager working on corpses at the local funeral home. E.C. Tobbit, the 16-year-old narrator, tells of his first visit to Rosalind's opulent mansion, Peligro, and explains how he, his buddy Neal Kraft, and Rosalind's adopted niece Julie become friends. Although their friendship is short-lived, the effect that the young people have on one another is profound. At Peligro, E.C. discovers and reads Rosalind's teenage diaries, which reveal secrets from the woman's past that affect the present generation. Kerr's characters are both complex and eccentric. Rosalind, the wealthy widow, is determined to control the town. She is accompanied everywhere by her good-luck charm: a two-foot high leather mannequin named Peale. The teens are lonely outsiders, looking for acceptance and love. Both boys have recently lost their fathers; Julie is adopted by Rosalind as a "companion" for Peale. There are quite a few other characters, and keeping track of them is a bit daunting. Spanning two generations, the intricate plot combines family secrets, revenge, greed, suspense, loneliness, and longing. Offsetting the potential confusion is Kerr's usual witty writing style, and her view of small-town life is eerily realistic, right down to the gossip, cruelty, fear, and insecurity of the townspeople. Teens who question the effect that past experiences and generations have on their present-day lives will gain valuable insight from this quirky novel.
Susie Paige, Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Meandering Story
By A. Luciano
E.C. is a high school student living in a small and unremarkable town. He isn't very social and spends most of his free time with his one friend, Neal. He and Neal have something in common--both of their fathers have died and they have seen the same psychologist for therapy to deal with that loss. So the boys become friends.
This summer a woman and her niece come to town. They live in the mansion up the hill that used to be called Evans Above and now is called Peligro, the Portuguese word for danger. Soon after they arrive, E.C. begins to become friends with the niece, Julie, a socially inept girl who tries too hard to make friends and brings out the protective instinct of E.C. Soon Julie is hanging out with E.C. and Neal all of the time, and she seems to have feelings of more than friendship for Neal.
But then E.C. starts to find out some things about Julie's Aunt Rosalind. He reads her old diary and scrapbook and finds out that she has very good reason to hate Neal's family. E.C. doesn't want Julie kept away from him and Neal, so when Roasline threatens to move them back to Texas, he knows he has to do something desperate.
I liked the characters of E.C. and Neal, and I liked watching the way their friendship worked. I also liked the history behind the book, and the fact that people were motivated by events that happened a generation before them.
However, this book sort of meandered, with no buildup to a huge climax. The ending was a letdown, and it didn't make much sense to me.
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Totally weird- L.M.G.
By A Customer
This book was totally different from anything I've ever read because the topic was so unusual. I have never heared of a lady whose best friend was a doll. A lot of the characters in the book took an important part in the story, but the main character was E.C. Tobbit. He was a good student, sort of shy. He didn't have many friends and liked to make jokes and make people laugh. Trying hard to get over his fathers sudden death wasn't easy,and his tragic past compared to Neal's. The two became friends, and his normal life took a wild turn.
The story takes place in a quiet town named Peligro. At least it was quiet until Mrs.Slaymaster,a rich, snobby woman moved into town.Her best friend, a leather doll named Peale,and her troubled niece Julie make an impact on E.C.'s life. E.C.'s only and trouble-making friend Neal and Julie also hit it off, and the three become best friends. One night E.C. discovers Mrs. Slaymaster's old diaries and finds out how bad and embarrasing her life was and why she hated her hometown. That's when the trouble with Neil and Mrs. Slaymaster started. Neil gets caught stealing in her house and gets arrested. Mrs. Slaymaster plans to leave to get her niece away from them, convinced they were both criminals. Everything seemed to fall apart when E.C. realized he could lose his two best friends, and with the help of Peale he took matters into his own hands to try to make things right.
You shouln't read this book if you can't stand waiting and the suspense this book holds. It seemed to me that the author just seemed to make the plot more interesting and long, and I just wanted to know what would happen in the end! The author did a great job at keeping me hooked and it was all worthwhile in the end.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Kristen's Believe it or Not
By A Customer
The title of this book is What Became of Her, by M.E. Kerr. It is a young adult book. It is three misfits becoming friends. One steals a doll to keep his friend in town. she leaves because he confesses and gets in trouble.
This book was not as good as Stotan, which is about friendship too. Both books are funny, but Stotan was more amusing and had more action in it. The characters in both books were distinctive
The book was good. It was also a little sad about how hard the people's lives were. It was in way that people might not notice that they were hurt. Also, some of the characters were a little crazy, but it is somewhat explained by their pasts. The friendship between Neil, Julie, and E.C. was very touching, they were finding solace in being with each other. this is why it was so hard to see Julie leave, and why E.C. did something so stupid and desperate. It was too bad she did leave. They're friendship didnt last long but it changed their lives, especially for julie. She had been a mess when it started, she was trying too hard, "I'd come to believe that if we never met, her life would be quite different. And so it would be...just not as i'd feared." page 243.
I thought the ending was good, but sometimes the writing was confusing. Also i thought the book had humorous moment but not a lot. i thought some of the characters were kind of strange, and some weren't developed enough. I thought it was an almost potimistic book at times, but then it could be viewd pessimistic, like the poem they talked about. it depended on how you interpreted the book.
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