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Summary: This is a wonderful book.
Review: A great book of survival, intelligence, and friends who need each other to survive. Hughes has a wonderful knack for making up stories.
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Summary: this is a good book
Review: i am 13 years old i just got into reading books this is one of the best books i have ever read .the girl just gets out of school and moves to a DA with all her freinds they hear about The GAME so they finnley she gets a notice that they should met and play the game its 178 pages and a great story for kids my age.
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Summary: Enduring, in my own mind...
Review: I am a 23 year old Network Technician. I first read this book back in middle school, when I had purchased it at a book fair. I have since reread it so many times, the book is losing it's binding. Please understand, I own MANY books (over 300 paperbacks alone), and have read all of them at least twice, most three or more times. There is something in this book that continues to draw me back to it, even after all these years. I love both the bleak portrait of social erosion, and the breathtaking panorama of new beginnings Mrs. Hughes paints within this work. I may just be a nostalgic dreamer, but I still cheer for these children as their resourcefulness carries them through to the conclusion. (Please forgive my grammatical shortcomings... This is being written late at night, in response to people who obviously only connect with figureheads of the MTV persuasion. Keep your eyes on the prize, Lisse!) SV
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Summary: Great Young Adult Novel
Review: I am a college student with a major in elementary education and have taken many children's literature courses. For my Language Arts class, we had to read this novel. At first, I was not too excited about reading it, since I knew right away that it was a science fiction novel, which is a genre that I do not particularly like. However, this book changed my mind. Hughes is an excellent writer who keeps readers in suspense throughout the novel. I felt as if I was Lisse, the main character who was desperately trying to find answers to "the game." There are so many ways that this book can be taught. It can easily be taught with books like The Giver and Z for Zachariah, which are similar science fiction novels appropriate for junior high students. I would definitely recommend any teacher to use this in his/her class as well as strongly urge anyone to read it. I'm looking foward to reading other novels by Hughes.
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Summary: THI WAS A GREAT BOOK!
Review: I am an eighth grader who read this book for a project at school. I could not put it down because it was so good. I love the way she really makes you think about what could happen to us in the far ahead future. My favorite part is at the ed of the book when Lisse is telling about meeting the other group and metting her husband, Phillip, and she is making a cradle for her soon to be baby and writes her own story about he experience for her child! ~Traci~
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I bought this book a couple of years ago, and have read it several times. It remains one of my all time favorite books. It's so exciting! I was very surprized at the end when they recieved their "Prize" from The Game. The characters are so realistic and fantastic! I just loved the story!
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Summary: Teacher Review
Review: I enjoyed using this novel in the classroom with twenty-nine seventh grade students. I have used this book for the past two years. This year the students comprehended the material much better than last year's students did. I work at a school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. My students related to the city scene in the story. The following is a sample writing assignment:
Imagine that you were one of the ten students. Write a letter to the government created by the author. Include the name of the character you wish to portray, and your feelings about the government's decision to do what they did in chapters seven through chapter eight. This assignment allowed creative expression, emotions, and an assessment of the students' comprehension. I strongly suggest this book. It promotes high order thinking skills to be exercised for today's youth.
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Summary: Predictable yet refreshing
Review: I first picked up Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes during my 1997 bicycle trip from Montreal to Toronto. A local museum was having a fund raising used book street sale, and I picked this book up for [a song]. It took me until now to actually pick it up and read it. While the book is quite fitting for early-teen readers, I might have been stretching it a bit at the age of 29, as I found the book quite predictable. On several occasions I wanted to grab hold of the characters and shake some sense in them. "What are you thinking? Are you dense or what?" Since I could not do this, I just had to suffer my way through twenty more pages before the characters caught up with the obvious. That being said, I did not realize the end of the book from the beginning, but only through the last 3 chapters. And apart from the last chapter, which was too sweet for my dentist to approve, the conclusion was quite refreshing for a children's book.
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Summary: An unexpected treasure
Review: I first read this book in sixth or seventh grade (I am a sophomore now), and the love I feel for it hasn't diminished a bit. This really is one of those books that your eyes just skid over in a bookstore, the gaudy cover and awkward title and all that. That's what I first thought when I saw it in the bookstore. But something about it urged me to get it, and I'm so glad I did. This is a realistic and chilling view of the future, with an end that surprises and gratifies you in every way. "Invitation to the Game" is a cautionary book everyone should read.
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Summary: Cool Book
Review: I found "Invitation" in a middle school library much like the Public Library Lisse describes in her tale--poor lighting, mouse-nibbled tomes, a librarian in fear of the patrons--quite different from the well-lit, muraled library I left in my home town. I was in dispair over the selection; or lack thereof. But then, I found it! Adventure! Survival! A strange, horrible world, with rules you don't quite understand at first. I loved the idea of the unemployed scrounging to make an old warehouse a castle. I wish I could! This is a good book. I've read it 20 times, easy. If you like this one try My Side of the Mountain or The Giver.
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