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Summary: You Can't Stop It
Review: A Review by Chris
Danna, Hall, Beau, and Elizabeth didn't think that the fire would trap them in their own neighborhood. No one even thought that the fire could make to Pinch Canyon, but as they soon learned the fire choose where it wanted to go and nothing could stop it. The fire would skip over entire houses and burn the next to the ground. They all get in a car and start driving away when all of the sudden he stops and tells Hall to drive and gets out. He starts back at the fire for something or maybe someone.This book can get confusing because from chapter to chapter the point of view that the story is being told changes. In one chapter the story is talking about Danna's parents in L.A. and in the next it is talking about Pinch Canyon witch is about 40 miles away. The characters are very realistic. They show true friendship by helping each other out of the fire, and to safety. I don't understand why Beau goes back into the fire for the thing he did go back for. This book was fairly easy to understand by the use of language used, but would be a lot easier if the story didn't jump around as much. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes adventure books that can get confusing if you don't pay attention as you are reading.
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Summary: It is a good book
Review: Although this was a page turner of a natural disaster thriller, I was more annoyed by than concerned for some of the characters. Dana is not a "typical" teenager, wealthy or not, to be whining that she isn't in the thick of things. Are all wealthy parents that self-involved and shallow? I wanted to reach into the pages, grab Beau's mother by the lapels and slap her until her head spun on her shoulders. What an evil woman! Ditto Geoffrey's adoptive parents. On the other hand, are all poor people so cold, callous and cruel as the Gormans? As Chiffon? Didn't anyone wish that Chiffon got trapped into one of those made-for-tv movie turns of fate in which the cruel, mean, white-trash chick would get burned to a crisp? There was no character development, no character change, no one, except maybe for Hall, made any real discoveries about themselves or others. (No, Dana DID get a clue toward the end that she was being pretty useless. I forgot that.) I can't say I was bored and I do realize the story takes place in less than two hours, but it would have been nice to see some actual character development, maturing and even a little comeuppance.
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Summary: Cardboard Characters Burn Easily
Review: Although this was a page turner of a natural disaster thriller, I was more annoyed by than concerned for some of the characters. Dana is not a "typical" teenager, wealthy or not, to be whining that she isn't in the thick of things. Are all wealthy parents that self-involved and shallow? I wanted to reach into the pages, grab Beau's mother by the lapels and slap her until her head spun on her shoulders. What an evil woman! Ditto Geoffrey's adoptive parents. On the other hand, are all poor people so cold, callous and cruel as the Gormans? As Chiffon? Didn't anyone wish that Chiffon got trapped into one of those made-for-tv movie turns of fate in which the cruel, mean, white-trash chick would get burned to a crisp? There was no character development, no character change, no one, except maybe for Hall, made any real discoveries about themselves or others. (No, Dana DID get a clue toward the end that she was being pretty useless. I forgot that.) I can't say I was bored and I do realize the story takes place in less than two hours, but it would have been nice to see some actual character development, maturing and even a little comeuppance.
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Summary: A page-turner
Review: Caroline Cooney's "Flash Fire" is a real page turner. I think that anyone who reads this book will be almost guarenteed to enjoy it. Although I think "Emergency Room" is better for the writing style, teachers will find this book easy to use for novel studies. I just had to read this book for a novel study and so many kids read ahead. They were unable to stop reading ahead. Here is a part from the book that I remember: As Hall Press laid in his swimming pool staring up at the orange sky, resembling a basketball, a group of bikers jumped over the hill, the fire right on their heels and disapeared into the canyon. Now, this may not be the exact words but that was the way I enterpreted it. The only thing that you have to keep in mind is to pay close attention to what happens so you don't wind up like a classmate of mine. As we were in reading group, discussing the ending of the book he asked "Did he die??" If you are pondering the answer to this question, read "Flash Fire". You won't be disapointed! :)
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Summary: Awesome!!!
Review: Cooney really makes you feel like your with Hall and the others, trying to escape the fire.
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Summary: Flash Fire
Review: Flash Fire is a book where teenagers are board of there life and they wish something interesting would happed in there. Well what happens is that a little brush fire turns into a fire that has its own control of everything. Lizze, Dana, Hall, and Beau live on Peak Mountain and the fire gets so out of control that they cant fjnd ways of escaping. All of the kids parents are at work so the kids have to find a way to save there lives and there memories from there homes. This book is ok it kind of drags on. I like it because the kids are out on there own and it is very dramatic at some parts.
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Summary: A suspenseful cliff hanger
Review: Flash Fire is definately a 5 star rating! Caroline B. Cooney is an excellent suspenseful author. If you like to read and I mean not stop, this is a book for you. At the end of every section there is a cliff hanger which makes you want to go on! We read this for our natural disaster unit in school. We had to read a section a day, but kids couldn't stop at the end of each section and kept reading. (Each section was about 20-30 pages.) I recomend this to teachers who are looking for a great book for novel studies, and kids who love adventures. This a sad and happy book. You see conflicts from two points of view. You meet a whole bunch of characters, each different in their own way! You learn a lot about California and natural disasters. Read this book to find out if the kids can make it down through the huge Pinch Canyon Fire. Do you think they'll make it down?
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Summary: Interesting....
Review: Flash Fire wasn't Caroline B. Cooney's best book but I did find myself putting things off to finish it. I thought it would be as good as WANTED or Emergency Room but I was wrong. The book goes through severeal perspectives which was a nice way to look at it but I almost cried at the end.
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Summary: Flash Fire by Caroline B. Cooney
Review: Have you ever wanted to know how it is to be in a natural disaster? In Flash Fire, it feels like you're really in the book going through the disaster. Right after another you're just wondering what is going on,in every chapter. You get to like and dislike the people in this book. You can relate to how they feel in this book. It was a great book and I really enjoyed reading it. Flash Fire is the type of book you do not want to put down, and when you have to, you tend to think about it all the time.
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Summary: What a waste of time!
Review: I hated this book...and I usually love books about natural disasters. Maybe I read too much, but this book is for people who watch fishing(aka, people with no life at all.) First of all, there are too many characters. As one of your reviewers pointed out, the point of view changes too much...and how! There are so many charcters that we don't really get any time to start caring about them all. Just when a tear is going to exit your eyes about one character, the point of view changes and you don't hear about that person for another 20 pages. I like Caroline Cooney's work, I loved Face on the Milk Carton and Driver's Ed(which is one of my favorite books of all time), but she totally embrasses herself with this book. She thought that she could gain more popularity if she changed to more popular subjects like natural disasters, but you can't help but notice that there are too many characters. More than once I asked myself during reading it, "Where's that person I read about before?" They could be burning in the fire for all we know, there's not enough information about what happens to them, but there's too much about their personal lives. I give this book 2 stars because I respect Caroline Cooney and I'll give her another chance, but if she writes another bad book like this, it will be the last straw for me. You know what?..I can't continue with this review anymore, I am going to burn my copy of Flashfire(get it? Flashfire) and dig up my old copy of Driver's Ed somewhere in the closet and remember how good Caroline B Cooney's books once were.
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