Stay Out of that Room!

Clare Bills

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Midwestern Books
15 April 2023

Romance & relationships stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: teenage pregnancy (Children's&YA)

Series: House of Girls

"You may not believe my story, and I don't care if you do. I know what happened and what we found out in that forbidden room.

Disaster struck in the summer of 1965 when, like a migrating goose, my wackadoodle Great Aunt Polly arrived from New Mexico with her signature eye patch matching the enormous turquoise muumuu barely stretching over her bulk.

Mom assigned Kitty and me as indentured servants to help Aunt Polly at her ancient crumbling mansion on Lake Minnetonka. We spent weeks cooking, cleaning, and prying Aunt Polly out of her beater of a car.

We hoped the hunky Minnetonka guys living next door would be interested enough in two sheltered girls from south Minneapolis to make the summer enjoyable.

Fat chance! Aunt Polly's rules were endless. How could she expect us to obey them all? ""Stay out of that room!"" she said about the house's one locked door. Stay out? Right! Kitty and I took it as an invitation to investigate.

Don't you agree that, under the circumstances, disobedience was our duty? Not only did we find a way to be neighborly with the dudes next door. Our search for keys to that forbidden room unlocked family secrets from decades ago.

So, we found out just how far we could push Aunt Polly. Who knew she had a hunting rifle?

Take advantage of this chance to fulfill your secret wish to visit the 1960s. Buy my coming-of-age story. I promise it will make you giggle, cringe, squirm, and gasp.

Stay Out of That Room is Book 1 in the House of Girls series based on the crazy adventures of a family with eight daughters."

By: Clare Bills
Imprint: Midwestern Books
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9798985717594
Series: House of Girls
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 15 April 2023
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

I am a wife to one. Ken and I have been married for over 45 years.Mother of three.Nana to seven. Great grandmother to one.Sister to seven women. Yes, no brothers. My father said he felt like he was living in a convent at times as we ate in two long rows at the dinner table.I earned an MS in journalism and mass communications when our three children were young. My career evolved from radio announcer to public relations and instructor at Iowa State University. I have been published dozens of times as a freelance writer and have now completed three novels.

Reviews for Stay Out of that Room!

"""When weird Great-aunt Polly drags Cindy and Kitty to her crumbling lake house in the 1960s and orders them to stay out of the locked room on the first floor, the girls can't help themselves. They have to get inside it. Between embarrassing trips to the grocery store, fixing meals to satisfy their great-aunt's prodigious appetites, and trying to catch the attention of the boys next door, Cindy and Kitty snoop their way into trouble. Stay Out of That Room! is everything a mystery should be and more. Author Clare Bills keeps readers turning pages filled with renegade squirrels, glass eyes, swimsuit malfunctions, a pampered kitty cat, and summer romance. You'll laugh until you cry when Cindy and Kitty discover Aunt Polly's secret and see their eccentric, lonely relative with newfound compassion and respect. Jolene Stratton Philo, author of See Jane Run! and the rest of the West River Mystery Series"" ""I so enjoyed this book! In sharp detail (Pez dispensers! Hydrox!) Bills brings to life the bygone world in which many of us came of age. She writes with rich emotional imagination and a grinning way with similes (""earrings dangled like bait on a hook."") Cindy, her sweet-tart narrator, trembles (literally) on the brink of womanhood, trying to navigate Catholicism, cake and curious cute boys. As Cindy might say, ""Park your keester!"" and enjoy an entertaining and evocative read! Irene O'Garden-- Off-Broadway playwright, poet, author and transplanted Midwesterner"""