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225 pp.
| Harcourt |
September, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-15-205576-2$17.00
(2)
YA
In thirteen creepy tales, Vande Velde draws readers in with her conversational tone and familiar situations (meeting a date's parents, driving home from a party) before skillfully and swiftly shifting the narratives in unsettling, sometimes terrifying, directions. The mostly contemporary teenage characters not only balance the stories' menacing elements but also make the unexpected twists of fate that much more effective.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2006