The next day, the newspaper has an old picture of Cracked-Up Katie splashed on the front page along with the news that Katie has been murdered in her apartment. The cab arrives and Ingrid is whisked away to her soccer field. Katie seems surprised by this news and Ingrid takes the pause to pull out her bright red soccer cleats so she can put them on and save a bit of time. While they wait for the cab, Katie asks Ingrid about her hobbies, and Ingrid replies that she plays soccer and also enjoys acting in the plays put on by the Prescott Players at Prescott Hall (an old converted mansion formerly owned by the now-died-out Prescots who were the richest family in town). Katie invites Ingrid in and offers to call her a cab. But somehow she gets herself lost and ends up outside the house of Cracked-Up Katie, a strange and rather infamous middle-aged woman in the town of Echo Falls. Worried about being late (if she misses practice, she doesn’t get to play in the next game), Ingrid decides to walk as it’s not terribly far. Ingrid is at the orthodontists (what a joyful experience that is) and her mom has not yet arrived to pick her up and take her to soccer practice. Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams is another book on the “Children’s/YA books that Adults will Enjoy” list from Jen’s Book Blog.
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