The Creek

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Summary: a wonder ful book the creek
Review: the creek is a suspenseful novel it can keep you on your seat you would have to wear a seat belt so you won't fall out of your seat .I read this book it was so awesome .I just couldn'tput down it was so good it was like ice cream on a hot summer's night it was that good. This book is about a murder in a small nieghbor hood ...but no one ecepts it .Alsoit's kinda scary because this can realy happen to any one like it did to penny also any one can have a crazek person in there nieghbor are you can stab any time.I think jennifer L.holm has did a woderful job bring the chacter. I love this book so I recomed this book to any one to read!!!

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Summary: good lit circle book
Review: The Creek is a very good book. I think this because in the story it goes good, very good then it gets slow. Plus, the story has a very good twist. It has you guessing who the real killer is and then in the end, it shocks you.. This story is suspenseful. So if you like those kind of books, you will love this one because it has a lot of good parts. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes horor books because the Creek has a lot of scary and creepy parts to it. It starts off by kids talking about Caleb Devlin who supposedly used to kill other peoples' cat and dogs and other people so his parents sent him away to a mental school. Caleb returns and really creepy things start to happen. This story ends up shocking you in the end because you find out who the real killer is.

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Summary: Would you go to the creek?
Review: This was overall a good read. It did remind me a bit of a gruesome bedtime story rather than a novel.
The era seemed to feel as though it was the fifties and not present day. But who is to say that Mockingbird Lane wasn't a street just lost in a different era?
I found this bedtime story hard to put down and would recommend it to anyone who likes chills, thrills and plots that twist and kill.
I went...now it's your turn.

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Summary: The Best book Ever
Review: Twelve-year-old Penny Carson is looking forward to a long, hot summer of doing nothing more important than building a fort with her friends, a group of neighborhood boys. Her family has recently moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia, and Penny enjoys exploring the woods and the creek near her home. Little do her parents know that dangers lurk even in the idyllic suburbs. When household pets mysteriously turn up dead and fires threaten to destroy their fort, everyone blames the violence on Caleb Devlin, a no-good older teen who is back in town after a stint in juvenile detention following some unnamed violent crimes he committed years ago. Gradually, though, Penny begins to suspect that Caleb is not the one responsible for this new wave of terror.

Penny is at a difficult age. She's not sure if she wants to kiss the boys or play flashlight tag with them. She hates the bra her mom buys for her, but she is also embarrassed by the childish sundress she is forced to wear. For some inexplicable reason, she remains drawn to her neighbor Amy, an older girl who recently hit puberty and immediately became verbally abusive to Penny and her friends. As Penny investigates the grisly threats in her neighborhood, she also explores her own conflicted feelings about growing up.

THE CREEK contains some scenes of gruesome violence. These graphic situations, including threats of rape, seem to aim the book at older readers. Penny and her friends, however, are preteens and, in many ways, seem even younger than they really are, as they play tag together and become really excited when they get to go to the local ice cream parlor. Older readers may be turned off by Penny's childishness in many scenes, and younger readers may be truly frightened by the creepy "calling cards" left by the killer. If THE CREEK finds an appropriate audience, however, persistent readers with strong stomachs will enjoy unraveling the grisly clues.

--- Reviewed by Norah Piehl