Rating: 
Summary: Great Book For Teens or Anyone
Review: The Body of Christopher Creed Book SummaryBy Dylan Schrode One of the best books that I've read all year would have to be The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci. This mystery/thriller novel threw many curveballs at the reader, and always kept you guessing. The author does a great job of plotting out the characters and their motives. At the end of the book, she (Carol) tells the reader an interesting fact about Chris Creed that leaves the reader wanting more.
All in all, this book is directed for an audience of 13 and up. The book starts out in the present life of Torey Adams, a regular High School student who gets caught up in the mystery of where and why Chris Creed had vanished. Torey is writing his story about Chris Creed and publishing it on the internet so people can read it and respond. You don't know why Torey does this until the last chapter of the book, where Carol wraps up the novel.
The flashback of Torey Adam's story begins in his home town of Steepleton, New Jersey. He is an All-American Football star, has a popular girlfriend, friends, a nice car, a good family; all the good things in life. Steepleton is a town that has a reputation of being "perfect." Sure, some people are drug addicts; some are flunkees. But for the most part, there aren't any gangs or bad people terrorizing Steepleton, It's just a easy town to live in. Until Chris Creed is suddenly missing.
Nobody knew why Chris had vanished. Some say that he committed suicide due to the fact he was the geek in school. Chris was always bugging you about the stupidest things that didn't matter. That's why nodoby really liked him, because he was a huge pest. Others say that Chris had ran away and changed his name to get away from his mother. His mother was in the marines and she never let Chris have any social life. Not one bit. She kept him locked in his room, safe from the "bad" things, such as cliques, drugs, alcohol, etc.
Torey had become more and more interested in what had happened to Chris and decided to start investigating the situation. He accidentally ran into his past friend, Allie, while looking for info on Chris. Coincidentally, Allie was also trying to get some scoop on the Chris crisis. Allie had been a neighbor and close friend to Chris for a very long time, and she had predicted Chris would snap any day. But where did he go was the big question.
Throughout the rest of the book, Torey and Allie develop a good relationship among each other and work together to find out more about Chris. Along the way, Allie and Chris meet new people and challenges that all help them in finding out where Creed went. As the book progresses, Torey gives up his jock-like appearance, his relationship with his girlfriend, and even his relationship with his best friends, but will benefit from doing this in the long run.
Many lessons can be learned from this story. The message I got from this book would have to be that being who you are is one of the most important things in life, and you shouldn't let someone rob you of your individuality.
Rating: 
Summary: It's Aiight...
Review: High School drama is an excepted thing nowadays. Bullies, preps, jocks and nerds clash socially throughout the year and sometimes physically. Christopher Creed was easily classified as a nerd, but not even that because nerds where excepted somewhere in society yet Chris was not. Creed was a High school outcast who was bullied, beat up and then disappeared. The unexpected disappearance of the young man came as a shock to the town of Steepleton, New Jersey. The last sign of Chris was the cryptic email he sent to the principle the day before he disappeared. A childhood friend, Ali, begins her own investigation into her missing friend since the town seems to take the disappearance as a joke and hallway gossip. Ali begins to suspect Chris's own mother, the military like, controlling and selfish mother Ali believes her to be gets in the way of the truth about whether the Chris is dead or alive. This is a fascinating, story about a boy and town searching for truth and deception. A description of how people hide behind the truth and what it takes for it to actually come out.
Rating:
Summary: The Body of Christopher Creed
Review: This book takes place in a small town called Steepleton where everyone knows
everybody. There's a boy that lives in Steepleton named Chris who was constantly
mocked since he was young and has suddenly disappeared, leaving nothing but a
mysterious letter. No one in Steepleton knows what happened to him, not even his own
mother. They don't know whether he was kidnapped, if he committed suicide or if he
just left town. Now everyone in Steepleton is blaming each other for Chris' disappearance and Torey and his friends are trying to get to the bottom of this mystery.
I enjoyed reading this book because it's suspenseful to the very end. There are so
many surprises in this book, I enjoyed reading every page. The characters in this story are
complex and they have there own opinions about Chris' disappearance.
The lesson to learn is you shouldn't be cruel to people because it might not seem
to affect them, but it hurts inside. Chris wasn't a bad person, he just wanted friends.
Nobody cared about him until he disappeared. In this story nobody wanted to admit that
they treated Chris badly.
I would recommend this book to people that love to read books that keep you on
the edge of your seat to the very end. It was honestly one of the best books I have ever
read because once you pick up this book up, you wont want to put it down until you read
it to the end.
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