LEAVING FISHERS

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Summary: This book is inspirational!!! Read it today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: It's is awesome!!

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Summary: An informative alert to the lure of cults
Review: Leaving Fishers can help young people and their parents experience first-hand how terribly easy and immensely satisfying it may be for a person to become a member of a cult, not recognizing the "loving" group as a brain-washing machine. This book depicts a very credible situation.

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Summary: A great read...
Review: Leaving Fishers is about a girl, Dorry who moved from a small town in Ohio where everyone liked her and she had alot of friends to Indianapolis where she knew nobody and had absolutley no friends. She wants so bad to fit in, then one day at lunch a blonde haired girl, Angela, asked her to eat with her and her friends. Later Dorry finds out that Anglea and her friends belong to a religous group called the Fishers of Men. everything is great with the fishers until they start pulling her apart from her job, schooling, and parents. This book is was a very good read for just about anyone who's into this type of book. I would definately reccomend it. if you're looking for a good read i would reccomend Leaving Fishers.

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Summary: Fishers caught me in their net!!!!
Review: Leaving Fishers is an AMAZING book, worthy of everyone's time. It is amazingly realistic.... and tells it how it is. The story keeps you on the edge of your seat. Their fishing net sure caught me! Read it, you'll love it!

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Summary: Fishing For A Fishers Review?
Review: Leaving Fishers is an extremly deep book about a new girl named Dorry Stevens. Dorry meets a set of friends and thinks they are pretty cool. Dorry is eventually sucked up into a cult called Fishers of Men. I thought this book was HORRIBAL. I thought it was really to deep and dealt with alot of drama. This book hardly deserves two stars.

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Summary: A Provocative and Terrifying look into Cults
Review: Leaving Fishers is one of the creepiest, most fascinating books I have read in a long, long time. In this book, Dorry Stephens is a sweet, shy and lonely girl who is new in school and friendless. A group of attractive and well-dressed girls and boys come to her and accept her in their group. Soon she is swept into the Christian sect to which they all belong--the Fishers of Men--and finds herself enjoying the unconditional love and security she find with her new group of friends. However, once she gets more deeply into the group, she finds that she is compromising every aspect of her well being to live up to the expectations of the cult. By the time she realizes this, she has no idea what to do--and she fears the wrath of the group if she disobeys in any way. After I read this, I took a whole new look into religion--both the good and bad aspects of it. I highly recommend this book for the over-12 crowd (lots of complex and mature subject matter). It will cause you to think long and hard about the things a lonely person will do for friends and how once you've been brainwashed into doing something, it is nearly impossible to stop.

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Summary: This is an awesome book!
Review: Margret Peterson Haddix's Leaving Fishers is a great story about Dorry, a girl that gets caught up in a cult. Dorry moves to a new town and soon becomes friends with a religious group called Fishers. At first Dorry's friends are so kind she can't believe it, but later on they make her make huge sacrifices. These sacrifices make her parents and boss angry. Because of Fishers her grades, which were once honor roll, go down to failing. I recommend this book to anyone ages 13 and up. This novel is definitely one of my favorites.

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Summary: So so...
Review: Not a bad read, but certainly not what I would call "spellbinding." I wish that Ms. Haddix had made a more clear distinction between "cults" (bad) and other religious sects. In defense of the book, I must say that in the end Dorry did reach her own conclusion about religion, and it was a fairly positive one.

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Summary: Read it until dawn..
Review: Once I had started, I didn't want to stop. It was a very captivating book.The only complaint I have is that the way Dorry talked in the book at times wore a little on my nerves, but overall it is an excellent book.

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Summary: Good Church Gone Bad
Review: Simple Dorry wants desperately to fit in and find friends in her new home. She was forced to moved to the suburbs of Indianapolis from her cozy, small town when her father got a job transfer. Dorry tried hard for three weeks to meet people and introduced her self with "Hi, I'm Dorry. I just moved here" several times, only to be ignored and laughed at. She begins to feel even more self conscious of herself and begins to wonder why nobody will give her the time of day. This is when she meets the Fishers of Men. The Fishers are a religious group that consider themselves the only true church of god. Dorry is seduced by the possibilty of freindship and allows herself to attend some of the meetings. In this group, Dorry has more friends than she knows the names of, but something is wrong. As she gets more involved in the Fishers, she becomes more and more isolated from everything else in the world. The fishers demand more and more of Dorry's dedication. Following Pastor Jim's orders, Dorry goes so far as to attempt converting young children. Dorry doesn't know how far she will go to keep the friendship with the Fishers. But if she doesn't stop now, she may lose her family forever. This book speaks directly to kids who find themselves doing alomost anything to fit in. Dorry didn't really want to join the fishers, but did because she couldn't stand the though of losing her new friends. Sometimes, the conpromise is too great.