Locked in Time

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Summary: YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT IT DOWN!!!
Review: THIS WAS THE FIRST LOIS DUNCAN BOOK THAT I EVER READ AND IT GOT ME HOOKED. I HAVE READ ALL OF HER OTHER BOOKS AND THIS IS THE BEST BY FAR. VERT INTENSE. ONCE YOU PICK IT UP YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT IT DOWN!!!!

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Summary: Locked in Time
Review: This is the first time I have ever read one os her books, and it was the best! It was really intense, you never knew what was going to happen next. If I had read it at night I would never be able to sleep. I recomend this book to anyone who's in between the ages of 11-16, and enjoys a good mystery and a little bit of history.

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Summary: very, very, suspensful
Review: lois duncan builds up the suspense very very quickly, and then keeps it at that level before telling the ending of the story. i think that this book is one of the better books that I've read. Matthew Henley([e-mail])Canada

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Summary: Terrific
Review: I read this book when I was about 13 and I loved it. I'm now 23 and I still think it was one of the best books I've ever read. Lois Duncan really knows how to intrigue a reader. I would recommend this book to anyone between the ages of 11 and 14.

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Summary: Locked in time
Review: Lois Duncan has done it again! This book includes suspense, mystery and science fiction all in one book! It's about a teenage girl, Nore Robbins, living her summer vacation with her father and new stepfamily. Her uncanny awareness of time leads her to find a dangerous secret that her stepfamily had kept hidden for a little over a century. She pierce comments together made by her step siblings about little things like how her step sister, Josie, says she would never be able to have boyfriends because of her adolescent body.
The reason I chose this book is because the title drew me to the book and Lois Duncan had written it. The book was up to my standards and I enjoyed the it immensely. I liked the book because it interested me in all of the genres I look for in a book. I like mystery and science fiction and this book included those genres.


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Summary: Like a good Outer Limits episode!
Review: Ms. Duncan has written a marvelous tale that would be utterly terrifying were it not written in first person (you always know that the narrator will survive taking away some of the suspense). Nore (short for Eleanor) has just returned from boarding school for summer vacation. While she was away her father re-married (why wouldn't a father invite his only daughter to his wedding?)and Nore is going to spend the summer with her father and his new family in an old Louisiana estate. Her new stepmother, Lisette Berge appears very beautiful but very stern, demanding of privacy and wanting to live in the estate isolated with no phone service. She has a teenage son Gabe about Nore's age and a daughter Josie of about 13.

Immediately their behavior is very strange. Such as Lisette's reaction to an old woman that knew a Lisette Berge 20 years earlier and that looked exactly the same. Lisette claims it was her mother and runs off away from the woman.

Then Josie and Gabe start talking about things that happened to them many years earlier, which would have been impossible considering they are only teenagers. Additionally, Josie starts talking about never physically changing and about not getting too close to anyone because they die and leave you and that this has happened to her many times. Then she talks about a brother who died many years ago but Nore finds a family photo with the brother in it and Lisette, Gabe, and Nore look exactly the same. Additionally, there is an old man in the photo who looks exactly like a portrait that was painted about 60 years earlier that is hanging in the house!

Also, Nore keeps over hearing Lisette talking about a pact she has made and Josie and Gabe are upset that they weren't asked about it first. The author keeps pointing out that many of the Cajuns are into witchcraft and voodoo so the reader can get a clue as to what the pact was about.

Things come to a head when Gabe tries to first cause a car accident and then tries to drown Nore in the river.

It all builds up to a big climax that Ms. Duncan is very good at. Ms. Duncan has done it again by writing a book that is both interesting to teens and adults alike.

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Summary: My fave Lois Duncan book!
Review: This is about a girl named Nora who goes to Louisianna to spend her summer vacation with her dad and new step family. Little does she know that her new step family is hiding a huge secret.