{"product_id":"9781939601056","title":"Secret Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of 1930s New Orleans, Berthe Amoss's 1979 young adult mystery follows twelve-year-old Addie Agnew as she struggles to uncover the secret of her mother's death. Living with her spinster aunts in a house that's practically haunted, Addie was always told her mother was perfect and was swept off to sea with Addie's father in a Honduran tidal wave. But Addie suspects there's something her aunts aren't telling her, and it has something to do with the locked trunk in the attic. What's in the trunk? And what really happened to Addie's parents? In this classic story about family secrets and growing up, Addie will stop at nothing to discover truth about her mother, even if learning the truth will change everything forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in New Orleans, \u003cb\u003eBerthe Amoss\u003c\/b\u003e has never stopped writing about her home city. She is the author and illustrator of twenty-eight children's and young adult books. Her picture book \u003ci\u003eThe Cajun Gingerbread Boy\u003c\/i\u003e won a Children's Choice Award and \u003ci\u003eThe Chalk Cross\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ig Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050417111280,"sku":"9781939601056","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781939601056_p0.jpg?v=1763666804","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781939601056","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}