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Title: Cathy's Key

Subtitle: If Found Call (650) 266-8202

Author: Sean Stewart

Narrator: Laura Flanagan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-09

Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

But now Cathy is stumbling across a trail of evidence pertaining to her own family - secrets about her father and the circumstances surrounding his death. Having an immortal boyfriend is sure to come in handy as her investigation continues, considering Cathy's father is still alive.

Critic Reviews:

"Readers will be drawn into Cathy's fast-paced adventure, which takes her into the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Buy the series for your young adult!

I purchased the series for a young adult, and she devoured them! An intriguing approach that will engage a young reader even in today's distraction-filled world.

Fabulous book series

Perfect for teen girls. My granddaughters have really enjoyed the three book series and the "clues" inside the book makes it unusual and fun.

Clearance Table Treasure

Ok, well maybe this isn't quite a treasure in the sense that I'll want to read it to my grandkids, but as a writer, I am more than bowled over by this book and the skill at pacing, plotting, and character-sketching displayed by it's author(s). I consider it worth having just for what I can learn from it, but it's also a rollicking good tale. I picked it up off the clearance table at Borders, although it didn't look too promising on the cover, flipped into it and couldn't put it down. I wound up spending seven bucks (this is more significant than those who don't know me might guess) in order to be able to finish the story that day, without having to wait for it to come in at the library.

Others have more than adequately synopsized the plot, so I'll just say that "Cathy's Key" is not only the sort of story that absolutely hurls you from page two to page "The End", it's also well-told. Not great literature, maybe, but great storytelling in the grandest, 'round the fire, tradition. And, underneath the yarn-spinning is another, skillfully unobtrusive layer of story. This other story layer is in the finest tradition of YA lit in that it poses solid questions about what is of worth in life and what values can be counted on to not grow threadbare with time. For those who want to know about such things before they buy for their kids, this book does feature some hard-bitten characters and consequently there are crimes committed, including a murder. I didn't find any of it gratuitous or distastefully overdescribed. There is no graphic description of sex. There is some swearing.

Highly interactive and visual story

Cathy's Key is the second book of a trilogy, but without a doubt a book that can stand on its own with a really interesting and dynamic plot. Cathy's Key offers us a highly interactive and visual story accompanied with illustrations and objects ("the evidence") relevant to the story. That for sure, will be a favorite thing for many readers, as it was for me. This is a modern take on books characterize for descriptive images interspersed with text.

Particularly, I enjoy the writers' style with the use of great similes. Also, Stewart and Weisman describe everything in detail, making it easy for the reader to imagine the environment and the characters. They can make Cathy and the characters approachable. Certainly, A Top of the list YA Read!

A little about the book:

Cathy is the protagonist of this series.