Review

School Library Journal:

“Something Upstairs is an intelligent and well-intentioned effort. It can provoke discussion of the issues .  .  . as well as how, finally, violence visits the lives of both Caleb and Kenny and how Kenny, through choice and circumstance, may have become a slave himself.”

Awards and Honors

YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 1999
Rhode Island Award, 1991
Florida Sunshine Award, 1992
California Young Readers Award, 1993
ALA Notable Recording, 1992 (Recorded Books, Inc.)
Best Books of the Year, Library of Congress, 1989
Nominated, Best Juvenile Mystery of the Year, Mystery Writers of America, 1989