# The Girl Next Door

**Author(s):** Jack Ketchum
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-girl-next-door/verdict.json
**Genres:** horror
**Published:** Sat Jan 01 2005 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780843955439
**ISBN-10:** 0843955430
**ASIN:** B003IHC34I
**Amazon categories:** Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Suspense
**Amazon binding:** $32.84
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-girl-next-door

## Description

A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Girl Next Door has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-girl-next-door/verdict.json

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