

Instead, she took a seminar in Zen Buddhism and decided that spending all her time talking about big ideas in small classes with bearded professors was what college was supposed to be about. And if she hadn't gone to Duke University, where she learned that in order to be premed she had to hang out in chemistry lectures with 500 other students, she might be a doctor today. But she never thought she was good enough, so by the sixth grade she decided to be an astronomer instead: and after that a lawyer, Congresswoman, spy, and finally a doctor. She published her first poem at age ten, and decided after reading Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time" in fifth grade that she wanted to be a writer, too. As his physical condition deteriorates, there seems to be no choice but to return to the lakeside camp where he disappeared and confront what happened to him.Nancy Butts has had her head stuck in a book ever since she learned to read-and she's been writing stories for just as long.

While trying to cope with his friends and family's acceptance of his return, Joey also begins to suffer strange physical conditions, including a voice telling him to "come to the door-r-r in the la-a-ke" and periodic seizures during which he seems to remember being sucked into a vortex of light near the forest where he disappeared. Chronologically 14, he looks, sounds and feels like a 12-year-old boy. He doesn't remember what happened to him, but even more disturbing is that he doesn't look a day older than when he left. Joseph disappears from a camping trip and mysteriously reappears two years later. While trying to cope with his friends and family's acceptance of his return, Joey also begins to suffer strange physical conditions, including a voice telling him to "come to the door-r-r in the la-a-ke" and periodic seizures during which he seems to.

