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Synopsis
"A new novel from V.C. Andrews, the legendary author of Flowers in the Attic--now a hit Lifetime TV movie!"-- Seventeen year old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father's construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family. Accompanying her dad to the "forbidden territory," they find a leather bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy about her reading it, but as she devours the teen's story page by page, his shattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakes Kristin's every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses a dangerous line...
Is Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworth appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 15 and up.
Teen discovers diary chronicling the infamous Dollanganger children's dark story, becoming dangerously obsessed with the tragic narrative. Contains references to incest, abuse, and psychological manipulation from the original Flowers in the Attic story.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, moderate sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include child harm, incest, emotional abuse, captivity, and death of parent (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens will be drawn into the mystery of an infamous family's dark past through a discovered diary that becomes increasingly addictive to read.