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Summary: Freakily good writing!
Review: A girl named Jessica finds a cat one day. Her over working mothers pays little attention to either one of them and the cat is named Worm. Worm tells Jessica to do cruel things for revenge.
I thought this book was both creepy and scary. I couldn't get enough of it though because it had such captivating and magnifecent writing! This should be read by people 10 yrs. and up.
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Summary: Still a favorite.
Review: I first read this book in elementary school, and now many many years later, it's still a favorite. It's entertaining, creepy, but also teaches a valuable lesson in the end.
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Summary: This book entices children into reading.
Review: I had trouble reading an entire book until I found this in a library when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. I loved it. I read every book from the author once I was done. My youngest sister was also not interested in reading when she was around that same age. I gave her this book and she read it and loved it. It may not be for every child, but it captivated me. I still think of it fondly 20 years later.
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Summary: The witches of worm
Review: I read this 22 years ago when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, and it scared the hell out of me. I remember being too frightened to even look at the cover (a different one than pictured). For some reason, I pulled this off the shelf at my school library along with a book called "Trillions" which I also have been looking for, and I went nuts over both books. "Witches of Worm" was very creepy, and I believe having read it at that age spoiled me and made me a little less scared of other books and movies. When you're that age, you think what you're reading is really happening! If you give this to your kids, prepare for them to be spooked out of their wits...
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Summary: A true classic
Review: I read this book about 15 years ago, when I was a very young man, and the impressions I got from it has never left me. I have devoted my life to the written word (as an editor), and I think that that my love of prose can be directly related to this small, strange novel I read one afternoon in the mid-eighties. Like the greatest of Gothic novels (think "Dracula" or Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey"), this is a novel of the imagination. While the protagonist may be certifiable, she is still extremely recognizable to all readers. While I would highly reccomend this book to young readers, it is adults that will relate, and remember, the alienation of youth. A highly original fantasy, this novel will stick whith anyone, of any age, who picks it up. An underpraised classic of teen literature. It deserves to be embraced by teens and adults of all ages for many years to come.
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Summary: Creepy
Review: I read this book one summer when I was 11 and it scared the hell out of me. But of course, kids are fascinated by such dark, supernatural things. And this book is full of it. I was hooked. Anyone reading it can immediatly feel the dark, lonely mood that the writing evokes. This book is a page-turner with those type of endings that leaves the reader wondering......
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Summary: The only book that stood out in my past.
Review: I've read MANY books. I read a lot when I was in Middle School because I didn't have many friends. This book and "The Headless Cupid," also by Zilpha Keatley Synder are the only books I can remember reading. I never knew they were by the same author. I HIGHLY recomend these two books. They really do make you think, and will stay with you for years to come.
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Summary: Read it in an Hour!
Review: The Witches of Worm is about a girl named Jessica who finds a strange, hairless kitten she names Worm. As time goes on, Jessica believes that the cat is possesing her into doing mean things (ex.Washing her her mother's dry-clean dress.) She also thinks that the cat is being possesed by a group of witches, hence the name. Read this book, one of the best I've ever read!
Snyder does it again, with a writting style that works thirty years after, while still providing entertainment.
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Summary: Read it in an Hour!
Review: The Witches of Worm is about a girl named Jessica who finds a strange, hairless kitten she names Worm. As time goes on, Jessica believes that the cat is possesing her into doing mean things (ex.Washing her her mother's dry-clean dress.) She also thinks that the cat is being possesed by a group of witches, hence the name. Read this book, one of the best I've ever read!
Snyder does it again, with a writting style that works thirty years after, while still providing entertainment.
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Summary: what a sad, strange little girl
Review: You don't have to have a bombshell mother who spends all her free time with her boyfriend or have no friends to dig the sad, bleary-eyed, lonely, supernatural atmosphere of The Witches of Worm. I read this book when I was ten, and for me it's up there with The Secret Garden, The Little Princess, and Jane Eyre for telling it like it is about being a lonely little girl, just strange enough for the neighbors to talk and to know herself that she doesn't fit in. The cat could be possessed, or not; Jessica could be a witch, or not; but the big question for me is, is she really wise beyond her years or does her desolation just make her seem that way? My favorite quote is from this book: "Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life."
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