The Secret Keeper Book Review

The Secret Keeper
by Gloria Whelan
Genre: Mystery
Age: Young Adult

"I love the Larimers dearly but I have to tell you they have no business bringing Matt to the Beaches. It's selfish and it's terribly dangerous for Matt." (pg. 54) The main character, Anne is spending her summer as a keeper for her neighbor's grandchild, Matt. Anne's summer starts when she is invited to the Beaches to be Matt's keeper.

At the Beaches every child had to have a keeper to give the adults a break. The Beaches has many cabins, not tiny cabins but more like mansions. There is wildlife and many beautiful flowers and vegetation. Anne is told to keep a close eye on Matt and is told that it was a matter of life and death that he was not to see his dad. Besides that Matt still takes sailing lessons and tennis lessons.

One day when Anne and Matt were taking a leisurely walk around the Beaches, Anne spots a man on the top of a sand dune. Matt runs up to the man and Anne knows it is Matt's dad. She tries to stop Matt but then thinks that it would be okay if Matt and his dad spend a little time together. Then she starts relaying messages back and forth because she was not told that she couldn't relay messages. Matt's dad shows Anne a beautiful bog buthe as ks her not to tell anyone about the bog because the people at the Beaches like Earl Beamish would fill the bog in to make it so that he could sell the land to build a house and make money. Matt's father did not want the bog to be destroyed because it had very rare and beautiful plants like the orchids. Poor Matt has no father nor mother because his mother was some how killed but to find out how I suggest that you read the book.