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Reader questions about The Walls Have Eyes
By Clare B. Dunkle. New York: Atheneum, 2009. 225 p.

Readers have written me to ask questions about this book. Here are some of those questions and their answers. If you read these and think of further questions, please go to the Contact the Author page to send me an email.

WARNING: If you have not read the book, DO NOT read this page. The questions won’t interest you, and they will ruin some of the book’s best surprises.

WHY HAVEN’T YOU ANSWERED MY EMAIL?

WHY IS MARTIN HELPING HIS FATHER IN THIS BOOK? I THOUGHT HE HATED HIM.

DO WE GET TO VISIT A GAME SHOW?

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO BUG.

IS THIS ANOTHER BOOK WHERE THE DOG DIES IN THE END? BECAUSE IF IT IS, I DON'T WANT TO READ IT!


WHY HAVEN’T YOU ANSWERED MY EMAIL?

I still intend to answer as many readers as I can, but if you have not received an answer within two weeks of writing me, then I’m afraid that one of the following things has happened:

  • I couldn’t find the time to reply. This has nothing to do with your email and everything to do with what was on my schedule during those two weeks;
  • you filled in the form and forgot to fill in your email address;
  • your email address is invalid;
    • or
  • your email account has blocked my reply to you as “spam.” Unfortunately, the last problem happens quite frequently!
If you haven’t received a reply, please email me again from a different account and let me know it is the second time you are trying to reach me. Perhaps another email address will not be so picky, or my schedule will allow me time to reply to this email.

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WHY IS MARTIN HELPING HIS FATHER IN THIS BOOK? I THOUGHT HE HATED HIM.

Martin is pretty sure he hates Dad too. He hasn’t gone back to the suburb to rescue Dad. He went home to rescue Mom. Dad just wound up tagging along, and there doesn’t seem to be much Martin can do about it.

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DO WE GET TO VISIT A GAME SHOW?

We do indirectly (and you’ll see how that works out), but Martin himself doesn’t wind up on a show. I originally wrote a chapter in which he did end up on a show, but ultimately I decided that he had somewhere else to be. Now we just get a glimpse of it, but it’s a very sobering glimpse—probably more sobering than the entire chapter had been before.

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I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO BUG.

So does Martin.

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IS THIS ANOTHER BOOK WHERE THE DOG DIES IN THE END? BECAUSE IF IT IS, I DON'T WANT TO READ IT!

I know just how you feel. All I can say is that you’ll have to trust me.

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