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Summary: Big Fan
Review: I read this book for a course I'm taking and I was blown away. I read it in one sitting, I just couldn't put it down. It was so so good. In particular, I found the author's approach to the concept of reality, fascinating. I would reccomend it to anyone.
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Summary: for Older Teens, Young Adults
Review: I bought this book to give to my 14 year old nephew and was pretty surprised when I started to read it by the language and dark edge it has as well as the talking about 'doing the nasty' with mention of the sounds etc. All this is alright but people should know that it is a bit raw and cynically oriented (like an adult's book!).
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Summary: Good read but for older teens
Review: The book is engaging and interesting but there is a lot of cursing and it is fairly sexually explicit. Unfortunately, the editorial reviews do not mention this. I would recommend it to 16 and up, not 12 and up. Just a warning to parents and teachers if you care about this kind of stuff. In an attempt to be "authentic", it seems coarseness is thought to be OK. But the best artists don't need to go there to get their point across.
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Summary: Excellent Book!!
Review: This book kept me at the end of my seat the whole time! This was the best book I've ever read, and trust me, I've read a lot of them!!!
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Summary: Christopher Creed
Review: The Body of Christopher Creed
By Carol Plum-Ucci Some of the main characters in this book are, Torey, Ali, Alex and Chris. Torey is the one of the characters in the book who likes to be a good friend and really likes to play music. Torey is one of my favorite characters in the book because he likes music that I like. Ali is an old friend of Torey and his friends. She stopped hanging out with him after she started to have problems at her house. I felt really sorry for her because Ali's mom had ten different boyfriends and all of them where mean to her. Alex is Torey's best friend that he had ever since he was a kid. Alex and I are much alike. We stay true to our friends. Chris is really different from everyone else in the book because he doesn't have friends and he is really annoying.
The book takes place in a town that's not that small. It takes place in the present time. I know this because they have cars and they had bands that had drums and electric guitars. The plot of this book is when Christopher Creed comes up missing. No one knows what happened to him and a lot of them really don't care he's gone because he wasn't a person you would be friends with. The whole book is about where Chris could be and if he is dead or alive. I would recommend this book to anyone it's a really good book to read. If you like mystery then this is the book for you. I would recommend young adults to read this book.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: The Body of Christopher Creed was the first book I've ever finished in one day. Yes, it was that good, I couldn't put it down. Parts of it sent chills to the back of my neck and I had to put the book down for a minute, but I ended up picking back up wanting to continue.
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Summary: What if the scapegoat got away?
Review: Every class has a kid that everyone picks on, and in Steepleton, it's Chris Creed. He's the type that has an annoying grin plastered on his face no matter how you insult him, the one who never seems to get it when you scream at him to leave you alone. One night he doesn't come home.
A cryptic email that reads almost-but-not-quite like a suicide note surfaces, and in it, Chris admits that he DOES know how much he was disliked, that he wishes he were born as someone else, someone with a more perfect life -- and lists 10 classmates. One, Torey Adams, is haunted by this revelation, and feels immense guilt over treating his troubled classmate badly in the past. He is shocked at the way his clique jokes about Chris's disappearance, and how lightly they take the fact that someone they have known since kindergarten may be kidnapped, or run away, or murdered, or dead by his own hand.
Torey's perfect existence begins to fall apart as he turns his back on his shallow friends, hangs out with the school [bad girl] and a guy from the wrong side of the tracks, and starts investigating Chris's disappearance. Skeletons of all shapes and sizes come out of their closets. The gossip, lies and backstabbing at the high school are a microcosm of what goes on in the small town society. I found the novel slightly S.E. Hinton-ish -- which just goes to show that things haven't changed much between the haves & have-nots in 25+ years.
Plum-Ucci has created a dynamic and sensitive teen who takes an honest look at high school society, friendship and small town life. Torey reflects on people, friendship, and the truth, and his voice is honest and authentic.
I really enjoyed the premise of the book, too, which is that Chris never turned up dead or alive and Torey is still searching for him, using a website to tell his story. If the author wanted to play more with the format, designing the text to look more like a website might have been sort of cool. This might also work as an e-book. This book will really appeal to fans of Nancy Werlin as we await her next gem and could make for a good discussion on how teens relate to one another in groups.
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Summary: where is the body of christopher creed?
Review: Christopher Creed has disappeared. He has left no trace of what happened to himself-nothing except an e-mail, which may or may not have actually been written by himself. Victor ("Torey") Adams is one of the more popular, wealthier kids in Steepleton High School. Sure, Christopher lived a few blocks away from him, and sure, he occasionally insulted him - nothing major. But when he begins to realize he's really the only person who actually cares about how Christopher was, instead of where he was, he begins to dissassociate himself from his friends, and more with Ali and Bo, whose lives were far worse off than his. Along with Ali and Bo, Torey decides to take up the matter of finding Christopher (and proving that Bo was not a murderer, as Mrs. Creed seemed convinced) themselves. However, all this seems to do is make everyone in town a bit angrier, a bit unhappier-and a bit more convinced that the threesome had something to do with Christopher's disappearance. Ms. Plum-Ucci manages to make the novel seem as though it is actually written by a teenager, which is something quite unusual in young adult fiction; along with that, the lives of outsiders in high school and how poorly they are treated by the so-called "popular" crowd stands out as being true to life. With twists and connections between the past and present, this astonishingly well-written novel manages to make the reader actually wonder - where is the body of Christopher Creed?
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Summary: A book that is worth every penny.
Review: The Body of Christopher Creed was super! I highly recomend this to all teenagers. You really identify with the main character unlike in some books where you hate him/her. It really shows you how some people can be really bad and mean but still have a nice side to them. It might be a little confusing at first but eventually you'll catch on to what's happening. If you're expecting a "Lucy Stone" mystery then forget about this book because it's a lot more about developing character then mystery. I won't write a plot sumarry about the story becouse many other people allready have but I can tell you that I liked this book so much I'm planning on buying it in hardcover so I can show it to my friends. I was never able to put this book down and I hope other people experience the same plesures as I have with this book.
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Summary: LOVED IT!
Review: The Body of Christopher Creed is one of my favourite books of all time! Christopher Creed is a misfit in school and as soon as he goes missing people don't realize that it was really their fault causing them to blame eachother. This book will keep you guessing what happened to Christopher Creed till the very end of the book.
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