The Shadow Club

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Summary: Realistic
Review: A group of seven students form a club of second-best. Pulling pranks on the ones always better than them. Harmless at first but increasingly more dangerous. While the resolution seems a little contrived, it makes excellent sense.

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Summary: The Shadow Club is The Best Books For Teens
Review: As every teenager knows there is the popular group that always has the best kids at everything. Then there is the group of the kids that are forgotten, or lost in the Shadows, and are second best at everything. Jared is one of those kids, he's the second best runner in the school, and Austin is the fastest most agile person in the school, or even the town. Jared has a friend named Cheryl that is the second best singer in the school next to her cousin Rebecca who has a voice of an angel. Jared and Cheryl are tired of being second best, so they start their own group of kids at the school, formed of all the kids that are second best at band, running, singing, second smartest, second best looking...ect. Together they are "The Shadow Club," and together they plot to humiliate and make all the "unbeatables" look as bad as possible without hurting them. Well, when they start out they only were doing small practical jokes, nothing to seriously harm anybody, but when jealously adds up things start getting extremely out of hand.
The Shadow Club is the best and most exciting book that I have read that is written about, and for teenagers. This book has most emotions you can feel all wrapped inside it, and also has a great message for young adults or older adults.

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Summary: The Shadow Club
Review: I can really picture this book in real life. Even though I'm only 10. The things the characters do and say teach you that you have to be very careful before you say or do something. I thought that this was a very realistic book. This book is set in a highschool and there are the number ones who get all the glory and the number twos who hate the number ones. All these number twos get together and form the shadow club where they play tricks on the number ones. But then tricks happen that the club didn't do. Who did them? Why? Read the Shadow Club to find out.

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Summary: A great book
Review: I have recntly had the Shadow Club read to me by my 6th grade teacher. I believe this book is wonderful. It is incredibly intersting and i garauntee anyone from 9-13 will love this book. It also has a great moral, and teaches a valuable lesson. Trust Me, This book is excellent read it!!

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Summary: The Shadow Club
Review: Jared Mercer was a normal ninth grader at his junior high school. He followed all the rules, never cut class, and hung out with the "right" people. Almost everything worked out the way it was supposed to, and no one suspected he was unhappy about anything. But he had one problem. Since he could remember, he was always second best at the one thing he was truly good at--running. In fact, the only person that he could not beat was Austin Pace, a casual friend who took pride in belittling all of Jared's efforts. Although it first begins as an annoyance, the constant rivalry becomes unbearable for Jared. When his close friend Cheryl proposes that they form a club for all their classmates who are second best at something, Jared agrees and suggests that they play harmless tricks on everyone else's rivals. At first this proves to be a safe and satisfactory way to air their feelings and get revenge, but the Shadow Club soon realizes that if they don't want to be caught, they have to stop their pranks for a while.
The only problem is, the Shadow Club had already been observed, and the outsider who's been watching them has started to talk. So when more dangerous pranks are being pulled on their enemies, everyone thinks that the Shadow Club, which is now believed to be a gang, is to blame. They become so enraged at being framed, that they nearly kill their main suspect, the boy who spied on them. But in order to find the true culprit, they have to admit that what they've done is wrong and face the harsh reality of the truth.
The Shadow Club is a book that is easy to relate to. You can identify with the characters feelings and emotions as they struggle to understand what they really want, not just what they think they want. However, I suggest you find a time when you don't have many things planned before you read it, because once you start, you won't be able to put it down. It is a true suspense story that not only keeps you turning pages, but attaches you to the characters. I recommend it for ages 10 and up.

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Summary: The Shadow Club
Review: Jared Mercer was a normal ninth grader at his junior high school. He followed all the rules, never cut class, and hung out with the "right" people. Almost everything worked out the way it was supposed to, and no one suspected he was unhappy about anything. But he had one problem. Since he could remember, he was always second best at the one thing he was truly good at--running. In fact, the only person that he could not beat was Austin Pace, a casual friend who took pride in belittling all of Jared's efforts. Although it first begins as an annoyance, the constant rivalry becomes unbearable for Jared. When his close friend Cheryl proposes that they form a club for all their classmates who are second best at something, Jared agrees and suggests that they play harmless tricks on everyone else's rivals. At first this proves to be a safe and satisfactory way to air their feelings and get revenge, but the Shadow Club soon realizes that if they don't want to be caught, they have to stop their pranks for a while.
The only problem is, the Shadow Club had already been observed, and the outsider who's been watching them has started to talk. So when more dangerous pranks are being pulled on their enemies, everyone thinks that the Shadow Club, which is now believed to be a gang, is to blame. They become so enraged at being framed, that they nearly kill their main suspect, the boy who spied on them. But in order to find the true culprit, they have to admit that what they've done is wrong and face the harsh reality of the truth.
The Shadow Club is a book that is easy to relate to. You can identify with the characters feelings and emotions as they struggle to understand what they really want, not just what they think they want. However, I suggest you find a time when you don't have many things planned before you read it, because once you start, you won't be able to put it down. It is a true suspense story that not only keeps you turning pages, but attaches you to the characters. I recommend it for ages 10 and up.

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Summary: Beat the "Unbeatables"
Review: The Shadow Club is about a group of second-best kids. They are always trying to beat the "Unbeatables", the kids who always win. They form a group and begin to pull pranks. They are harmless at first, then become reckless when they find out someone is trying to frame them.

The book is really great because it concentrates on things that really happen in Jr. High and High School. It proves that some people will do whatever it takes to win, but in the end they turn out to be no better than the people they were trying to beat.

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Summary: Beat the "Unbeatables"
Review: The Shadow Club is about a group of second-best kids. They are always trying to beat the "Unbeatables," the kids who always win. They form a group and begin to pull pranks. They are harmless at first, then become reckless when they find out someone is trying to frame them.

The book is really great because it concentrates on things that really happen in jr. high and high school. It proves that some people will do whatever it takes to win, but in the end they turn out to be no better than the people they were trying to beat. I also think the book is really great because it is full of mystery and suspense. Just when you think you have figured out who is pulling which prank, you find a clue that proves it isn't the person you think it is! I give this book 5 stars.

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Summary: The shadow club
Review: The shadow club, shows us how far some people can go. Hate is the scariest thing on earth. And when you play a prank on someone you hate and get caught. Are sorry because you hurt someone or are you sorry you were caught? For me this story hit way close to home. It left me thinking about the questions it raised. The scariest part is that when you hurt someone even the ones who love you become scared of you. This book is one of my favorite.

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Summary: Shusterman at his best.
Review: To start off this book is great.... It's Shusterman at his best. I haven't came across a bad Shusterman book yet. Anyways here's the story in a Nutshell. A 14-year-old boy named Jared and his friend Cheryl are sick of being second best at the things that they do best. These two people gather more and more people that are second best, they decide to form a club.... The Shadow Club. This club has a goal, the goal is to make the people who are best pay, to make there lives a living hell, and play practical jokes and pranks on them. At first the club seems like a joke, they have meetings to plot there next practical jokes, they hang out etc., but.... one day a prank goes to far and people start getting seriously hurt, by the end of the book you find out that...... Wait now If I gave away the ending it would be pointless to read, wouldn't it? Anyways to find out what goes wrong and how the book ends, go buy it, borrow it, I don't care as long as you read it I'll be happy. (*****(5) out of *****(5) stars)

(More books by shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, The Shadow Club: Rising, Downsiders )