The She

Carol Plum-Ucci, . . Harcourt, $6.95 (354pp) ISBN 978-0-15-205453-3

A nine-year-old boy who loses his seafaring parents in a storm finds himself at 17 confronting the same suspicions about The She, a fabled dark force that lurks off the Jersey shore. PW said, "This chiller at one moment resembles a mournful dirge, the next a supernatural thriller, the next a tightly woven mystery." Ages 14-up. (Aug.)

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