Whistling in the Dark
Lesley Kagen
popular fiction
pg. 57-100

Sally has been spending her time trying to convince Troo that Rasmussen is the killer, and he is after her next, but Troo won't believe her. The girls have still been spending a lot of time away from home. Today, they spent the day at the school on the playground in their summer camp program. They finally went went home when Hall wasn't there to cause trouble. A few days later, Sally writes about her charitable works of the summer for school. While she's at it, she writes a letter that she plans to send to her mom in the hospital, finally telling her what her father told her when he was dying. That night, Troo and Sally are going to sleep, when Hall comes home completely drunk. He comes to their room and pins Troo up against the wall, but Sally started singing his favorite song about beer that we all know: "ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, take one down and pass it around," saving Troo from getting really hurt. However, the Fourth of July was coming up, and there was a bicycle decorating contest Troo always participated in. This year she was making tons of flowers out of tissues she stole from the store. Sally and Troo then go to their favorite place in the park, where Troo finds the shoe of a girl that was murdered and molested not too long ago. Instead of calling the police and risking Rasmussen showing up, the girls pulled the fire alarm in the park, an offense they had done more than once. Although, when the girls arrive back at home, they find Rasmussen sitting on their front porch waiting for them. Apparently some of the firefighters thought they saw them hiding across from the park. They denied it however. Anyways, he left to go talk to the other neighbors. Nell, their older sister came home though. Her boyfriend Eddie's aunt is a nurse at the hospital could get them into see their mother. Sally wants to go, but Troo doesn't. While on their way, Rasmussen pulls Eddie over and calls Sally out of the car. He asked her again if she pulled the fire alarm, and she admits to it finally. He pities her and gives her his number card with $5 taped to it. While getting it out of his wallet, Sally sees her picture along with one of the girls who was murdered in there, raising her suspicions. She gets back into the car when they all decide to go get food instead of going to the hospital. Sally then witnesses Eddie freak out and yell at Nell right in front of her.

In this part of the book, it takes you deeper into the plot. I'm really enjoying it so far. It's really suspenseful and keeps you guessing constantly what's going to happen with Rasmussen. It's also a classic story of a little kid who is trying to get everyone to believe them but no one will.