They say, they would rather have died than look like she does now. They say, maybe Jessica was playing with matches and set her sheets on fire. Some of Tom's other classmates-including Jeff-start speculating about what happened. She's enrolled only because the hospital where she's getting long-term treatment is close by. Jessica has been burned so badly that her face and body are supremely disfigured, almost heinous to look at. Rambunctous, show-offy, really annoying-yeah, those ones, the ones who would pull on the pig tails of a pretty girl or dare each other to snap the bra strap of another.īut then Jessica Feeney joins their seventh grade class. Tony had one brother and two sisters.Īt first, I couldn't stop rolling my eyes because Tom and his friend Jeff were the kind of boys I knew when I was, say, ten, and really didn't like.

He attended the workshops of Patricia Reilly Giff to further develop his writing after college.Ībbott currently lives in Trumbull, Connecticut, with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut where he went through elementary school and high school.Ībbott attended the University of Connecticut, and after studying both music and psychology, decided to study English and graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor's degree in English literature. His father was a university professor and had an extensive library of books which became one of Abbott's first sources of literature. He has also written the bestseller Firegirl.Ībbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952.

He has sold over 12 million copies of his books and they have been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. His most popular work is the book series The Secrets of Droon, which includes over 40 books. Tony Abbott (born 1952) is an American author of children's books.

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