Looking for Jamie Bridger

by Nancy Springer

Jamie Bridger's decision to find out who her real parents are causes anger and feigned ignorance on the part of her grandparents and leads her to danger and some surprising discoveries. By the author of Colt.

Genres: Young Adult, Mystery

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

BIO -- NANCY SPRINGER


Nancy Springer has passed the fifty-book milestone, having written that many novels for adults, young adults and children, in genres including mythic fantasy, contemporary fiction, magical realism, horror, and mystery -- although she did not realize she wrote mystery until she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America two years in succession. DARK LIE, recently released from NAL, is her first venture into mass-market psychological suspense.
Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Nancy Springer moved with her family to Gettysburg, of Civil War fame, when she was thirteen. She spent the next forty-six years in Pennsylvania, raising two children (Jonathan, now 38, and Nora, 34), writing, horseback riding, fishing, and birdwatching. In 2007 she surprised her friends and herself by moving with her second husband to an isolated area of the Florida panhandle, where the birdwatching is spectacular and where, when fishing, she occasionally catches an alligator.

Reviews

[Roben · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nancy Springer is a great author. I loved her Enola Holmes series. She has a knack for writing strong, spunky female characters. Jamie Bridger is no exception. Since this book is a mystery, it is more difficult to review because you don't want to spoil anything for the reader. Fourteen-year-old Jamie lives in a small town in Pennsylvania with her grandparents. She has no idea who her parents are and every time she tries to ask her grandparents, she is shut out. Her grandmother claims she can't remember and her grandfather just gets mad. But then her grandfather dies and the will he left gives her a few clues. After that, Jamie is off and running in pursuit of her parents. And she does, eventually, find the answers she has been looking for though they aren't at all what she expected. I loved the character of Jamie - her persistence in trying to unravel the lies and secrets that had been such a major part of her life for so long. And I liked the quirky characters that Springer sprinkles throughout to help Jamie solve her mystery.

[Helen Fleischer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I expect it means more to me for having grown up in a very sick home, but I love this book. It touched me deeply.

[Mary]

DNF - started out well and then got too strange