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Summary: Great for oral reading in English class!
Review: As an English teacher/researcher/writer for the University of Hawaii's Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) it is my job to constantly be on the lookout for "good reads" for our Performance English Program. One of our favorite in-class presentation approaches is the read-along, in which a book is read orally by teacher and individual students while the whole class follows along in duplicate copies of the text. Lois Duncan's STRANGER WITH MY FACE is one of the very best we've found for middle school (grades 6-9). Excellent characterizations (including a believable and sympathetic narrator), authentic dialogue, and a deep sense of mystery make this a story all students return to eagerly
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Summary: Lois Duncan flies with a story about astral projection
Review: I went to Madison, Wisconsin for a family vacation one summer when I was 10 and I took this book out of the local library. From the moment I examined the cover to the last page of Stranger With My Face I was in total rapture. I had never known anything about astral projection and I was enthralled with the topic after I read this book. I highly recommend this book to anyone, young or adult, especially those with healthy imagination. The one complaint I have about the current version of the book is the cover. The old one which portrayed Lori as a beautiful teenager with long dark hair was a much more accurate and visually stimulating picture
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Summary: Great plot, lousy grammar and punctuation
Review: I think that this is one of her best books, but it looks like she wrote it in a hurry. The grammar and punctuation needs improvement, and I don't think that the cover picture goes very well with the story. I would love to ask her where she gets her ideas and I would love to be able to write stories like hers.
Alexa Mossbrook
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Summary: Interesting and well-written, but somewhat irresponsible
Review: I first read this book several years ago, and through it, became interested in Astral Projection. I understand that this book is horror/fiction, however, certain aspects of this story are not only impossible, but continue to perpetuate myths about Astral Projection. This book actually winds up planting more seeds of fear than it does providing sound information about the art of Astral Travel. For instance, possession of one's body by another spirit while Astral Travelling is impossible. It is obvious that Ms. Duncan is well-read about Astral Projection, which makes me curious as to why she inadvertently scares people away from this experience. Overall, though, the descriptions, characters, and storyline were very good, and it is a memorable, haunting book
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Summary: A suspenseful fantasy thriller
Review: How can she be in two places at one time?Laurie was at home, but her boyfriend swears he saw her on the beach with another guy. Her family insists they see her coming and going when she's been out of the house for hours. Who--or what--is taking over Laurie's life? A short blurb on the front cover proclaims: "Someone is watching Laurie, waiting to steal her life." How could any young reader resist such a line? When I picked up this book I couldn't. Stranger with My Face, told in first person, starts off more as though it's going to be a thriller than a fantasy. But as the fantasy element strengthens it becomes steadily scarier, building into a terrifying climax that makes for an exciting, unputdownable read. This book is definitely intended for young adults (after all, the protagonist is 17 years old) but I suspect most readers will be a lot younger. Few 12-year-olds can resist a really scary story. I certainly couldn't. I remember reading Jane Eyre (one of the few good books to come my way, purely by accident) and it was the mad woman in the attic rather than the hopeless love between Jane and her employer that kept me turning the pages. :-) Many of the reviews here, I feel, give away too much of the plot. But I particularly like Heidi Lott's review and envy the fact that she obviously had someone around when she was young to point her in the direction of the best books for young readers. Like Heidi, I would also recommend Stranger with My Face to any adult who loves a good story well told.
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Summary: Wait she has two faces
Review: Lois Duncan's Stranger with My Face is a story of a girl who finds something evil who has taken on her identity. Well-written and descriptive, this book kept me reading and reading. I finished it within hours.
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Summary: Yet another great book by Ms Duncan
Review: After loving a ton of other books by Lois Duncan (especially Summer of Fear and Down a Dark Hall), I thought I'd check this one out. STRANGER WITH MY FACE is amazing - incredibly suspenseful, creepy, and you will not be able to put it down. In my opinion, it is one of her best books (right next to Down a Dark Hall, my favorite one yet).
Laurie doesn't know why everyone keeps saying they see her walking around town when she was sick, and sleeping all day. Her boyfriend's mad because he saw her with another boy, her dad claims he saw her walking around the house when she should be at school, and Jeff (the mysterious, moody guy) swears he saw her walking out on the rocks by her house - something really, really dangerous. Laurie knows she was never doing these things, but nobody believes her.
Soon though, she tells her newest friend Helen about everything, and she's able to come up with an answer. Astral projetion. There's someone out there that looks EXACTLY like Laurie, and she's projecting herself to Cliff House (Laurie's home).
STRANGER WITH MY FACE is great, and I loved the topic. Astral projection is something that fascinates me (it was the idea behind an episode of the Disney TV show "So Weird," which has been off the air for a while now), and it makes a great storyline. Highly recommended.
Overall grade - A
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Summary: A suspenseful fantasy thriller
Review: How can she be in two places at one time? Laurie was at home, but her boyfriend swears he saw her on the beach with another guy. Her family insists they see her coming and going when she's been out of the house for hours. Who--or what--is taking over Laurie's life? A short blurb on the front cover proclaims: "Someone is watching Laurie, waiting to steal her life." How could any young reader resist such a line? When I picked up this book I couldn't. Stranger with My Face, told in first person, starts off more as though it's going to be a thriller than a fantasy. But as the fantasy element strengthens it becomes steadily scarier, building into a terrifying climax that makes for an exciting, unputdownable read. This book is definitely intended for young adults (after all, the protagonist is 17 years old) but I suspect most readers will be a lot younger. Few 12-year-olds can resist a really scary story. I certainly couldn't. I remember reading Jane Eyre (one of the few good books to come my way, purely by accident) and it was the mad woman in the attic rather than the hopeless love between Jane and her employer that kept me turning the pages. :-) Many of the reviews here, I feel, give away too much of the plot. But I particularly like Heidi Lott's review and envy the fact that she obviously had someone around when she was young to point her in the direction of the best books for young readers. Like Heidi, I would also recommend Stranger with My Face to any adult who loves a good story well told.
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Summary: After all these years...
Review: I read this book when I was a pre-teen and it's haunted me ever since. I'm 33 years old and couldn't remember the name or author, only the feeling the book gave me as an adopted child with a wild imagination. Something in my head clicked today and I searched for the book on Amazon and lo-and-behold, here it was! This is a fantastic read you'll never forget, I recommend it to any young reader, or even an older one like me, as I'm definitely ordering it to re-read and share with other young people.
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Summary: wow
Review: the author manages to keep your suspense until the last page, leaving you wondering with each chapter more and more as you go through the book. it is a twist of angst and sci fi which allows you to really appreciate Lois duncan's writing style. i definetely recommend this book as an "easy read". this is one of those books that you will want to keep reading.
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