Home Invasion

By Monique Polak

When his mother leaves town, Josh is left to spend a week alone with his new stepfather. Resenting his new living arrangements, Josh finds himself drawn to the idea of a “regular” family and, on a whim, sneaks into a neighbors’ house to see how others live. When another opportunity arises to be a fly on the wall, Josh takes it and finds himself becoming bolder. Considering it a harmless pastime, Josh continues entering people’s houses, until he is witness to a violent home invasion. Now he can’t be just an observer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Sep 1, 2005
• ISBN: 9781551436043

Monique Polak

Monique Polak is the author of more than thirty books for young people. She is the three-time winner of the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Children's and YA Literature for her novels Hate Mail, What World is Left and Room for One More. In addition to teaching at Marianopolis College in Montreal, Monique is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean's Magazine, the Montreal Gazette and other Postmedia newspapers. She is also a columnist on ICI Radio-Canada's Plus on est de fous, plus on lit! In 2016, Monique was the CBC/Quebec Writers' Federation inaugural writer-in-residence. Monique lives in Montreal.

Reviews for Home Invasion

[kmmsb459 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

For me there just wasn't enough story.

[coriblake · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a fun, easy and of us can relate to Josh, who has to deal with his mother's new husband; a pain for sure. Josh is a teenage boy who wants his independence. He's figuring out who he is and definitely does not want to be told what to do especially from a man who is not his biological father. I enjoyed reading this fast paced pseudo type thriller of a story. Why does Josh feel the need to sneak into people's houses and watch them? Does he mean any harm? All of us at one time or another have probably wondered what it was like to be someone else or walk in someone else's shoes, right? Read this book and you'll find out just that.