Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481422765)

Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

"Like its heroine, this contemporary mystery is compelling, offbeat, and fearless." --The Horn Book

"A sensitive, suspenseful mystery that deftly navigates the uncertainty of mental illness." --Kirkus Reviews

Footer Davis is on the case when two kids go missing after a fire in this humorously honest novel that is full of Southern style.

"Bless your heart" is a saying in the South that sounds nice but really isn't. It means, "You're beyond help." That's what folks say about fifth grader Footer Davis's mom, who "ain't right" because of her bipolar disorder. She just shot a snake in Footer's yard with an elephant gun, and now she's been shipped off to a mental hospital, and Footer is missing her fiercely yet again.

"Bless their hearts" is also what folks say about Cissy and Doc Abrams, two kids who went missing after a house fire. Footer wants to be a journalist and her friend Peavine wants to be a detective, so the two decide to help with the mystery of the missing kids. But when visiting the crime scene makes Footer begin to have "episodes" of her own, she wonders if maybe she's getting sick like her mom, and that's a mystery that she's not at all sure she wants to solve.

Author: Susan Vaught
ISBN-10: 1481422766
ISBN-13: 9781481422765
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 172185 / Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy

Award: Cybils - Finalist
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2015
School Library Journal 02/01/2015 pg. 94
Booklist 02/15/2015 pg. 86
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2015 pg. 111
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2015