"Peeled" by Joan Bauer

  As you look into the dark house, you realize that you can't see much. The only thing that you can see is a light. No, not a lightbulb light. Just a light. It doesn't show any parts of the house, though. All that the light shows is a face. Now this face isn't just an ordinary face, it is ghostly white, and seems to be in a screaming position. The face enhances you, as well as the light. You walk to the house. Across the lawn. You continue walking all the way up those creaky, chipped stairs until you reach the house - the face - the light -

Hildy Biddle.
Teenage reporter.
Newspaper: The Core
Currently reporting: The Ludlow House

Hildy is an adventurous reporter. When she needs to know something, she'll have it done, no matter what. She lost her father when she was only a little girl, and is now living with her mother, uncle, and cousin. at times you can see her connections with her father, especially when teachers say that she is "exactly like her father". There is a lot of loving loss in her heart, but most of the time she just keeps those feelings to herself. Also, one of the reasons that Hildy got the Ludlow case was probaby because she is the only one who could handle it, being that she was the bravest one in The Core's crew.