CHARACTERS: ANDREW AND HIS WIFE, CHARLIE, THE SHOP, IRV, NORMA, JOHN, SHOP LEADER THEMES: GOOD .V. EVIL, REBIRTH, FRIENDSHIPS, PAST-HUMAN POWERS, CONSPIRACY QUOTES: 1) PG.122 "There's no human being that should be able to do what she can, " Irv said. "That may well be," Andy said, and then he looked from Irv and directly in to Manders's stony, unforgiving face. "But then, no human being should have cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy or leukemia. But it …showed first 75 words of 621 total…

…showed last 75 words of 621 total…set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from New York to Vermont. And once they get her they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. What they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**