The Papers of Victoria Frankenstein: Packet One--I Discover Who I Am (1983-1995)

In the fall of 1997, a veteran 8th grade English teacher--Mr. Bob Walton--gets a new student in class. Her name is Vickie Stone. She is a ... different young woman. Quiet. Always reading. The other students don't seem to even notice her. But Mr. Walton recognizes something special in her, not just "different." One day she submits to him an amazing story she's written, a story that claims she is a direct descendent of Victor Frankenstein, the man who created the famous creature, the man who first appeared in FRANKENSTEIN, 1818, a novel by Mary Shelley.

Mr. Walton is astonished by her story--and then she begins giving him more and more of her papers, and her story so consumes Mr. Walton that, years later--now!--he decides to publish her words, just as she wrote them. He intrudes now and then with a note to explain something, but the story is all Vickie's.

She tells about her girlhood, her friendship with a neighbor girl named Harriet, and her slow discovery that there is something very unusual about her, and her horrifying experiences that begin when she is just a little girl.

We follow Vickie to an island in the Ohio River, another island on Lake Erie, islands where she has some frightening and potentially fatal encounters.