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Summary: dont take my advice
Review: the book was not a five star book i thought. Pereti could have given a few more hints in the begging of the book instead of leading tothe wrong person right away. How the students came up with the ghost taking the students wasw a good idea because i personaly could see that acctually happening in todays high schools. The way the book went the ending was way to short and could have been drawn out a little longer. From this you should be able see that i am not the best person to take advice on this book from since i ussually read total science fiction.
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Summary: hangmans curse review
Review: I absolutely loved Hangman's curse. Frank Peretti did a wonderful job publishing this religious mystery. It keeps you interested the whole way through and doesn't get boring and slow. It starts of with a government investigation group called the veritas project. The Springfield family is part of that group. The family consists of Nate, his wife Sara, and his 2 kids Elijah and Elisha. They get a call from a school that it having weird things going on and they decide to go check it out. Nate's kids enroll into the school to find out more and Nate posses the janitor to check the school out. Elijah made friends with the math kids and a kid named Ian Snyder who supposedly was a witch. Elisha made friends with a lot of popular girls and a science nerd named Norman. They get word that a ghost named Able Frye was making people go crazy and hallucinate. The Springfield's decide to try and find a more reasonable reason that people are going nuts. They call in their good friend Algernon Wheeling to help investigate a hunch that they have. Who really is the one to blame for the Attacks a ghost or some other mysterious source? This is a fairly easy book to read but a very well written. It shows how a small thing like bullying can lead to major problems.
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Summary: Loved It!
Review: Here is the beginning of the Veritas Project. A family working together to solve mysteries and finding out the truth no matter what. It was a great book! It kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time! I didn't want to put it down, I have already read this one and the second one(Nightmare Academy), two times each. I can't wait for the third one to come out!It is a great book.
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Summary: Pretty creepy in the end, but on par with Peretti's standard
Review: If you've ever read Peretti's work(s), then this is only a one-upper on it. The plot is excellent, the cast are great, the theme and message are appropriate, and the dialogue is cool.Picture Peretti's Cooper Kids Adventure Series family (Dad and the kids) with a cool Mom, and you've got the Springfields. The family moves in on the school and blends in, and investigates the mystery. They help out some of the troubled students and teachers at the school along the way. The new characters are awesome. Perhaps a little over-perfect, but one can overlook that. The dialogue is pretty cool, especially when the Springfield kids square off with students and teachers in an Evolution vs. Creation debate, using some pretty witty dialogue Peretti's theme applies to young kids today, as well as paralleling his own childhood experiences. Along the way, he manages to get back at some of his coaches that used to bully him in school...boy, should those guys be sorry! Don't read this book before going to bed...you'll sure be sorry. Otherwise, an awesome new series from Peretti...and he's under contract to do at least three more in the series too!
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Summary: Great for teens and adults
Review: I bought this book for my teenage son, started reading it and couldn't put it down. I've read other Peretti books and knew that he was an excellent, Christian author whose books are never "preachy." This book lives up to his standards. Even as an adult who has long forgotten the trials and rejections of adolescence, I felt like I was transported back into that time and could truly empathize with the kids who were getting picked on. This book really helps you to understand why there is so much violence in schools today. Plus, the story line has so many twists and turns that you're constantly on the edge of your seat. You can't put the book down until you find out what's going on -- and the ending is really a surprise. I loved this book and recommend it to both teens and adults!
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Summary: Hangman's Curse
Review: I recommend you read this book because this is the best book I've read in my entire life. It's about a high school that people think has been haunted. But has it? Well, let these teachers, parents, and high schoolers guide you through the book with surprising events happening throughout each chapter and throughout the whole book. Yes, it is long, but it is really good. It's so good you won't want to stop reading. It is a little bit religious, but other than that it is a good book. I think this because it keeps you waiting until the very end to know what happens to everyone.
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Summary: Hangman's Curse
Review: I give this book 4 stars because it actually got me reading it.I don't read that often. Hangman's Curse is a book for mystery readers.Elijah and Elisha are two teenagers that were secretly commissioned by the President to investigate stange mysteries.Baker,Washington is going through chaos.Three Famous athletes are picking on the nerds so all the nerds came together.When the first crime happens people don't realize what is happening.They think its the Abel Frye curse.But it isn't so Elijah and Elisha have to figure out some clues before it gets out of hand.
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Summary: The story is rich and compels you to continue
Review: This is an excellent book for younger readers as well as an old coot like me. The story is rich and compels you to continue reading. This promises to be a series I will eagerly follow.
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Summary: Tami's review
Review: Setting: Baker High School in Baker, Washington
Characters:The Springfield family- Nate, the dad, Sarah, the mom, Elijah and Elisha, boy and girl twin teenagers; Ian Snyder, suspect; Norman Bloom, lab assistant
Summary- Three athletes have gone mentally insane speaking gibberish and gradually losing physical function. The one thing in common was Abel Frye, which all of them speak of with fear. Abel Frye is supposedly the ghost of Baker High and has been set loose from a group of witches. The Springfield family as part of the Veritas Project is dispatched from Washington to find out the truth. They find a school immersed in a system where bullies rule and teachers don't help. They look into the lockers and find a soda straw with sugar and an unknown substance in all the lockers of the athletes. Meanwhile, more students are struck by this unreasoning fear that makes them incoherent, but some are dying. Eventually, it is discovered that an African wolf spider has been used to bite these individuals because they are bullies. Ian Snyder is a front man used because of his weird witchlike curses and seances. By accident a female African wolf spider is placed in the incriminating straw instead of a male. It mates with a brown recluse and in a matter of days the school is crawling with them. Their bite is more lethal that the African wolf spider and death follows very quickly. Elisha is trapped in the crawlspace under the school and left by the culprit, Norman Bloom. Although she has a protective suit the spiders are entering. She gets saved at the last moment and pumped with antivenom.
Author Evaluation- There is a great buildup of suspense while the reader tries to guess what causing the nightmarish disasters. It is well written, with original ideas that seem somewhat plausible although sometimes a little pedantic.
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Summary: Get ready for the truth (and plenty of suspense)
Review: If the glow-in-the dark cover doesn't grab you, the suspense will. Even from the start it's creepy: Jim Boltz, star quarterback for Baker High School suddenly freaking out on the playing field. Bizarre hex signs scratched on the lockers of other jocks gone crazy. And the legendary Abel Frye, the ghost of a guy who killed himself in the 30's, the whispered cause of it all. In Peretti's masterful style you'll follow the mysterious Veritas project, a family investigative team, as they attempt to unravel the secrets surrounding the strange Baker High events. Undercover, they dig for the truth as to why three jocks have become completely disabled, strapped to hospital beds in different stages of coma muttering odd syllables and "Abel Frye". Things only get uglier as more students are struck with the crippling disease, and when someone dies it becomes a race against time for the team to save the lives of the rest of the students and themselves. If you've ever been bullied for being different, felt like you don't fit in, or are simply thirsty for a spine-tingling mystery, this book is for you. With tantalizing clues (and some strange creatures) scattered throughout, it'll keep you page turning into the wee hours. And trust me, you'll never guess the ending.
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