Thin Ice

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Summary: Thin Ice Cracks with Excitement
Review: Marsha Qualey's Thin Ice evokes mystery and adventure in a small Wisconsin town. Set mostly in the snowy confines of a harsh winter, Thin Ice invokes all the familiar components of growing up in the Midwest; the twist to the story is the mysterious death of Arden's older brother, Scott.

Arden and Scott grew up on their own (Scott is twelve years older than Arden) after their parents died in a plane crash. The book opens with the highly creative and sarcastic Arden turning seventeen and the hardworking and resourceful Scott breaking through an icy patch of stream while riding his snowmobile. Less than a month after surviving the first crash, Scott is pronounced dead after having a second eerily similar crash through the thin ice of a rushing river.

The mystery advances as Arden refuses to accept her brother's death (it is too dangerous for a rescue team to dive for his body). Teenager turned detective, Arden works through many promising leads until she exhausts herself with the grief and hard work that go into this enterprise. She also puts her friendships and future in jeopardy as she becomes obsessed with the death and life of her brother.

Sometimes witty, sometimes depressing, Arden's voice rings true as she interacts with adults who fawn over her, rowdy teens who crash her house to party, and good friends who lose patience with her nonconformist coping strategies.

Qualey is a pro at teaming angst teenage girls with mystery. Young readers who enjoy Qualey's books will probably grow up to read P.D. James, Sue Grafton, Amanda Cross, Agatha Christie and other female mystery writers devoted to pairing strong women characters with "who done it?" situations.

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Summary: It was a very touching story
Review: The book was about a girl named Arden who was raised by her older brother,Scott. When she was 17 her brother had a snowmobile accident, but Arden believes that he staged it. It basically tells how Arden searches to find her brother and how she realizes how important the little things in life are.I really enjoyed reading this book, it taught me a lot about life, love, and families. I learned how important family can be and how you should never take the things that you have for granted because they wil not always be there. I think that everyone should read the book Thin Ice. It had a very realistic plot and a basic story line that is easy to learn a lesson from.

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Summary: Page Turner
Review: The story surronds a teenager, Arden Munro and her obsessive search for her lost brother Scott, who as everyone believes died in a tragic snowmobile accident. Arden, whose orphaned and been raised by her older borhter, believes he staged his accident. Desptie her friends objections, she goes on a wild goose chase to find him in this page turner. Qualey mixed humor with suspense and the plain reality that sometimes you haev to go against others to stick to your own opinion. Arden does learn though more about Scott's life, his pregnant girlfriend and exactly how hard he worked to raise her. In the end though, she gets her question's answered, and a little "i told you so" payback from those who didn't believe her. The only problem I found was how she was willing to forgive Scott for actually staging his death than I was

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Summary: A Great Plot!
Review: Thin Ice, by Marsha Qualey, is about a girl named Arden and her older brother Scott. Their parents died ten year ago in a plane crash and Arden was left for Scott to take care of. He had to take the responsibility of an adult and care for his sister while she grew up. Then, when Scott is twenty-nine, he buys a snowmobile and gets into an accident. One of his friends saves him that time, but a few weeks later he buys a new snowmobile and tries to cross ice that was too thin. No one was there to save him the second time when the ice cracked and he fell through. A search began to find his body, but in the cold wind and icy current, the search crew is unable to find anything. Arden has trouble handling his death. Her grades drop and she doesn't want anyone's help. Soon she begins to think that Scott didn't really die and he set the whole thing up. Maybe Scott hated his life caring for her. She started doing detective work to find her brother but has a lot of trouble because no one believes her. Does Arden find Scott or did he really die in the snowmobile accident like everyone else believes? Read Thin Ice to see what happens.

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Summary: THE MYSTERY OF THIN ICE STIMULATE A CURIOSITY
Review: This 261-pages mystery novel, Thin Ice, is written by Marsha Qualey. The story is told by main character, Arden. She is a seventeen-year-old girl who has grown up with her brother in small Wisconsin town after their parents died in a plane crash. Her brother, Scott, is twelve years older than her. One day, Scott crashes his snowmobile through the thin ice on a river, and every body presumes he is dead except for Arden. From this moment, the story falls into mystery. Because the book is written in first point of view, a teenager, the sentences are very outspoken style when Arden narrating. Also, many dialogues are used especially when the time the author has to explaining the situations, but they take important part, which is the giving clue of mystery. The main character, Arden, has a positive characteristic. She is creative, and independent because she has her own workshop, so she makes some frames, and sells them. She is also a stubborn teenager because she refuses to accept her brother¡¯s death. People think it¡¯s brought on by depression. At the same time, the conflict between Arden and the other characters begins. In addition, Arden is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the story she is just a common or frail teenager who has risen by her brother, but she becomes one great teenager who establishes her identity by herself. Because the author makes all the truth about the mystery of Scott¡¯s death clear at the end, each scene stimulates the reader¡¯s curiosity and the unexpected situations make the reader keep surprising. So, this book is fast-paced reading. The author writes this book to make the readers to consider about family, and to show the process of establish identity of one teenager. Even though the genre of the novel is mystery, this book is not too convoluted. Therefore, I highly recommend this book to all teenagers.

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Summary: A great story about the search for a lost brother.
Review: This book is about Arden and her search for her missing brother Scott. Arden just turned seventeen and she lives with her brother. Since both of her parents are dead, she has no one left in the world except her friends. While searching for her brother, Arden continues her framing business, school, and taking care of the house. Thus begins the healing and possible admit to defeat of her brother's dead. I enjoyed reading this book, and although I find the plot to be unusual, I liked the ideals. Arden is a character with very human feelings, and is stubborn in finding her lost brother. She will not admit defeat until she has tried to find her brother, even if she has to go against all odds. The climax of this book is rather surprising, but very emotional as well. I would recommend this book to teenagers of all ages.

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Summary: A great book that deals with gritty issues bluntly.
Review: this book is great. I read it because a librarian gets new books and she has a group of kids that are able to rate the books and I loved it, as well as many of the other kids. A wonderfully tantalizing read.

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Summary: Captivating!
Review: This book was really good. I read it on recommendation of a friend, and all I could do after I started was read. I liked it a lot. After I finished I just kept going back and reading over some of the best parts, over and over. It was really good!

The story is about a teenager named Arden who lives with her brother. Both of her parents died when she was young, so he takes care of her. One day he gets in a snow machineing accident, which really scares him. A week later when his snow machine, and other things are found in the river, she knows he is dead. Or is he? No one beleives her, thinking it's brought on by depression, as she starts to search for her missing brother. This book was captivating, a story like no other. I would DEFINATELY recommend it.

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Summary: Thin ICe
Review: This is a great and thrilling book. If you like suspense and mystery this book is definitley for you. It is basically about a girl named Arden whos parents died when she was young and her older brother has to take care of her for the rest of her life. When her brother SCott dissapears she is desperate to find him. WHile the rest of the town thinks he is dead, she has a strong feeling that she is not! I hope that this review was helpful for you!

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Summary: Arden and her Brother
Review: This is an awsome book! Arden has this perfect life intill somethig bad happenes. Her brother and her have been liveing together for most of there lives sience there parnets died! Then all of a sudden when Arden thinks that nothing in her life can go wrong BAMB something happenes!