| | Where It Stops, Nobody Knows |  | Author: Amy Ehrlich
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 6852443
Media: Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0833548727
EAN: 9780833548726
ASIN: 0833548727
Publication Date: October 1999
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This breathtaking novel of suspense traces the lives of Nina and her mother Joyce, who move from town to town. At first it's great fun, but now Nina wants to stay--but her mother says no, it's time to go. What is she running from? "A strong, passionate story. Provocative, compelling."--Publishers Weekly.
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 Mother and Daughter on the Run July 3, 2007
It seems Nina and her mother are always moving from one place to another. They have lived all over the country, and Nina never stays in one place long enough to put down roots. Her mother seems to be very uncomfortable making friends and she doesn't like Nina to become close to people, either.
Now Nina is in eighth grade in Vermont. For the first time, she really fits in. She has been recruited by the basketball coach and even though she has never played before, she is a natural. The other girls on the team accept her and she has a crush on a boy who seems to like her back.
Nina's mother spoils everything, though, when she won't let Nina go on a trip to play a basketball team in another town. Nina's coach calls to try to convince Nina's mother to let her go after all, and shortly after his phone call Nina's mother decides it is time for them to move again.
For the first time, Nina keeps in touch with someone--Sam, the boy she liked. When her mother finds out, she gets incredibly angry. For the first time, Nina wonders why they move around so much. Gradually she begins to believe that her mother might be running away from something. Nina is afraid and decides she has to find out what is really going on in her mother's mysterious life.
I liked the mystery of figuring out what was going on with Nina's mother. I also liked Nina's descriptions of how she was able to fit in with a new group of kids at every school. She was a very strong character.
I found it hard to believe that Nina never questioned her mother before this and never rebelled against moving so much.
 Stays With You October 23, 2006
I read this book as a kid as one of the winners of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. Today many years later I still think about the story often and remember the charactors. Out of all the books I have read over the years this is one that still remains in my collection.
Great Book July 15, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Where It Stops, Nobody Knows" opens with 13-year-old Nina Lewis and her mother traveling cross-country to Montpelier, Vermont (one of many cities that she and her mother have lived in over the years). As Nina explains, each move is harder than the one before, because she has to uproot herself from her friends, boyfriends, and school. And like before, just as Nina's getting used to her surroundings--she joins the girls' basketball team and develops a crush on a classmate (Sam Gordon)--her mother insists they move again, this time to Logan, Utah, where Nina's the new kid all over again.Throughout the book, Nina is confused by her mother's unpredictable moods and whims to move. No explanation is given for why they have to travel so often, but the reader begins to suspect that they're running away from something--or someone. The tension builds slowly as Nina and her mother move to Venice, California, then Brooklyn, New York, where a startling secret is finally revealed about Nina's mother. "Where It Stops, Nobody Knows" is a great book for teens, particularly girls. I could relate to Nina since I moved a lot as a kid, and readers who have as well will probably like this book, too. Yet even readers who haven't moved around a lot can still empathize with her, since the author does a great job of drawing her out. Recommended.
BEST BOOK! May 16, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first read this story when i was in elementry school. since then, i have loved it! i highly recomen this book!! it's an easy read, obviously, but it's a good story line. Ehrilch writes very well, and i think this is one of the greatest books of all time!
:) August 30, 2001
--Nina Lewis and her mother Joyce have always lived a free life; traveling from town to town whenever they feel like it. But Nina has noticed that this odd way of living is not all fun; lately, Nina has noticed suspicious patterns in their lifestyle. This is most conspicuous when Joyce forces Nina to leave a town she loves; she must be running away from something! What could Joyce be hiding from Nina? --Written so clearly that I could practically see the whole book happening, this book is definitely one of my top three favourite books. --Marisa
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