Balcony Escape: Christina leaves the manor in this fashion twice in the first book to save Anya from drowning herself, and in the third book with Val to escape the fire.The coach and secretary try to go after her, but an older boy waiting for detention sticks his legs out and trips them up, giving Christina the opportunity to escape. Badass Bystander: In Book 3, when Christina is frog-marched toward Mr Shevvington's office by his wife, she makes a break for it in the waiting room.Shevvington is arguably more evil and insidious than Mr. Gardner, though when he tries to talk to Christina about it, she naturally runs away from him. Even after the end of Book 2 proves to everyone that at least some of Christina's wild stories were actually true, and some of the trouble of that book can be laid at the Shevvingtons' feet, there is still no serious investigation into the bizarre incidents.Even though Christina never lied to her parents while she lived with them, they do not believe her word against the Shevvingtons'.When Anya starts to lose her grip on reality, Christina must engage in psychological warfare against the Shevvingtons to save her own mind and Anya's.

They seem like model citizens until they start to psychologically torture Christina and manipulate the people she loves into believing she is badly behaved and even insane. Shevvington is the principal of Christina's new school and Mrs. She and older student Anya Rothrock, along with brothers Benj and Michael Jaye, are staying at at a boarding house with the Shevvingtons. Losing Christina is a young adult thriller trilogy by Caroline B Cooney (author of the Janie series), originally published between 19 in three separate instalments: The Fog, The Snow and The Fire.Ĭhristina Romney is a girl from an island off the coast of Maine, who leaves her home along with other island adolescents to attend high school on the mainland.

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