Down The Strings Author:Nancy Means Wright Drusie Valentini feels she is trapped on a merry-go-round, going nowhere. She doesn’t fit in with the rest of her arty family: her extravagant puppeteer father, his gypsylike assistant Fey who moved in when her mother left; even her pesky brother Punch. A party a boyfriend talked her into giving ends in disaster—and in getting sent to a strict b... more »oarding school. In a year where it seems that everyone is pulling her strings, Drusie is forced to come to terms with her life with the people she loves best—and with the person she is, and hopes to be.« less