DEBUTANTE HILL [Paperback]

Lois Duncan (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Willow Books (1970)
• ASIN: B000LO9AEC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,077,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Lois Duncan was born in Philadelphia, PA, and grew up in Sarasota, FL.
She knew from early childhood that she wanted to be a writer. She submitted her first story to a magazine at age 10 and became published at 13. Throughout her high school years she wrote regularly for young people's publications, particularly Seventeen.

As an adult, Lois moved to Albuquerque, NM, where she taught magazine writing for the Journalism Department at the University of New Mexico and continued to write for magazines. Over 300 of her articles and stories appeared in such publications as Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, McCall's, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest, and for many years she was a contributing editor for Woman's Day.

Lois is the author of over 50 books, ranging from children's picture books to poetry to adult non-fiction, but is best known for her young adult suspense novels, which have received Young Readers Awards in 16 states and three foreign countries. In 1992, Lois was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards Award, presented by the School Library Journal and the ALA Young Adult Library Services Association for "a distinguished body of adolescent literature." In 2009, she received the Katharine Drexel Award, awarded by the Catholic Library Association "to recognize an outstanding contribution by an individual to the growth of high school and young adult librarianship and literature."

Six of her novels -- SUMMER OF FEAR, KILLING MR. GRIFFIN, GALLOWS HILL, RANSOM, DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU and STRANGER WITH MY FACE -- were made-for-TV movies. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and HOTEL FOR DOGS were box office hits.

Although young people are most familiar with Lois Duncan's fictional suspense novels, adults may know her best as the author of WHO KILLED MY DAUGHTER?, the true story of the murder of Kaitlyn Arquette, the youngest of Lois's five children. Kait's heartbreaking story has been featured on such TV shows as Unsolved Mysteries, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Sally Jessy Raphael and Inside Edition. A full account of the family's on-going personal investigation of this still unsolved homicide can be found on the Internet at http://kaitarquette.arquettes.com.

Lois Duncan's personal web page is at http://loisduncan.arquettes.com.

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I read this book when I was 13 (yes that makes me old) but not too old to order it from amazon when I found who the author was by using amazon's website for books without authors. This book is about Lynn Chambers, daughter of Dr. Chambers who's job takes him from the exclusive side of the town as he treats all people from all walks of life. Her crowd is mostly from "the hill" the exclusive and monied families and is excited when she learns they are making the Debuts into society. She doesn't know that her father will not allow her to become a deb and feels as though she gets left out of everything. On top of this drama, her boyfriend is away at college with her brother so she does feel like an outsider with the friends she has always hung out with. She does find out that there are many activites and people not associated with the "hill crowd" and finds herself enjoying new and different people and realizes that her father did make a good choice by not allowing her to participate. As it says in the book, "some of the finest people I know don't come from the hill." It's a fun book to read and I'm glad that I get to re-read it again.