The Spider's Web

Skinhead. Neo-Nazi. Lexi Jordan knows the names her friends use to talk about themselves, but she isn't quite sure what they mean. She knows the tattoo on her head--of a swastika--and the heavy boots that blister her feet are part of belonging. And Lexi wants to belong. She feels more at home sneaking out to meet and make plans with her friends than she does in her own home.

But Lexi begins to wonder just how safe she is when the group begins to do things that make her increasingly uneasy. When she meets Ursula Zeidler, an old woman with a terrifying secret, Lexi sets off a chain of events that places everyone she cares about in danger and leads her to make the most important decisions of her life.

In this suspenseful and all too realistic novel, Laura E. Williams allows the reader to see the world through the eyes of two girls: one in the present, whose dissatisfaction with her life leads her to flirt with the edges of danger, and one from the past. For both, the consequences of their actions become achingly real.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 03/24/1999
ISBN: 9781571316226
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.23w x 0.53d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/12/1999 pg. 76
Ingram Children's Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 67
Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1832
School Library Journal 12/01/1999 pg. 144
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1999 pg. 308 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1999 pg. 308 - Marginal, Seriously Flawed
Library Journal 12/01/1999

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 31419 / Spider's Web
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 4