Seventeen-year-old Luke has always relied on listening to Pat, his elder sister, to help him tackle difficult decisions in life, but when Pat goes missing from a tiny island off the coast of Honduras, Luke doesn’t expect to still have to listen to her words.
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Blog: The Children's Book Review (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Category: Young Adult Fiction
Format: Hardcover, ebook
Keywords: Camp, Murder, Mystery
Kimberly's synopsis:
Calista Wood arrives at St. Bede's Academy half way through the year. She's been granted a free ride, but there's more than school on her mind. Ten years ago, her sister and another girl mysteriously vanished outside this school. Now Calista is back, searching for answers to her sister's disappearance.
Kimberly's review:
I'm sorry to say I didn't care for this book. While the opening chapter hooked me in, I felt pretty lost through the beginning half of the novel. Callie enters the boarding school with hope that this prestigious school will help her get into a better college. Within the first few chapters, many different characters are introduced, none of them very memorable.
I liked Callie's spunk and the dialogue was fast and fun at times. But for all of that, when confronted with her peers, Callie didn't feel complete to me. The story starts moving about half way when a body is found in the woods behind the school. It's not her sister's, but it starts a chain reaction that leads Callie to investigate everyone around her.
Her boyfriend Alex, is bland. The other boy she's interested in, Jack, is a little richer, but the relationship is so lukewarm for so much of the book, it's hard to see him as a romantic lead by the time it does come around. Everyone else, including Queen Bee Helen and the mean girl groupies, were really hard to visualize.
I had a real problem with a lot of the relationships in the book. None of them seemed healthy, and by the end when everything is revealed, it's so distasteful, I imagine this prep school is run by Jersey Shore grads. For me, all of that took away from the overall mystery of the sister's disappearance. I really wanted to like this book, but the mystery left me flat and the school politics were cold.
You can find the author at www.mccormicktempleman.com.
Find more reviews by Kimberly at The Windy Pages.
Blog: YA & MG Fantasy Author Rebecca Ryals Russell (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Welcome today goes out to C. K. Volnek, MG/YA Author. Her debut MG book, Ghost Dog of Roanoke Island comes out this month. It sounds fascinating and I’m anxious to see how she wove her research of the Roanoke Island mystery with the paranormal. With no more delay, meet C. K. Volnek:
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Greetings! Thanks for allowing me to visit your blog today, Rebecca.
My name is C.K. Volnek, Author and Story Teller. My MG book, GHOST DOG OF ROANOKE ISLAND, is a tween ghost story, with a twist of Native American folklore, and based on a true American mystery…the mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. In 1587, 117 colonists disappeared fromRoanoke Islandwithout a trace. Many have speculated on what happened to them, but no one knows for sure.
I do not remember studying the Lost Colony. For years I thought the first Colonists landed onPlymouth. So when I read an article on this mystery of the Lost Colony, my muse perked up.Plymouthwasn’t the first colony. Then what could have happened to all those people fromRoanoke Island? I had to know the when, where, why and how it all happened. I had to research.
As I began my research, I found I had to go back a few years from the Lost Colony to understand the full story. Every situation has a cause and effect theory. What we do today, will determine what happens tomorrow. If Queen Elizabeth had not granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the land she called ‘Virginia,’ none of this would have happened.
But it did. In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Eastern coast ofNorth America. It proved fruitful and a second expedition with a number of men was sent out, headed by Sir Richard Grenville. The men built a fort and a number of small houses but having arrived too late to plant a crop abandoned their adventure soon after…but not before committing a most heinous crime. During his exploration, Grenville invited a group of Native Americans on board one of the ships. During the visit, a silver cup came up missing and the Indians were blamed. Grenville then sent his men to destroy the entirevillageofAquascogocin retaliation. Everything…burned to the ground.
Despite the mystery of the Lost Colony, without this crucial, and most hateful, piece of history, my story of Ghost Dog of Roanoke Island would never have been born. I was so appalled at the intolerance and hatred my muse grabbed hold of the details and formulated her story. The injustice and prejudice drove me to research these early events in depth, searching even deeper to find the original manifest of the colonists, digging up pictures and facts of early colonial and Native American life, and details as to why Governor White, after going back to England for supplies, returned to Roanoke Island three years later, only to find a deserted fort and no clues to the whereabouts of
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Click image above to see a bigger version. I’ve also posted about my time management experiment where I tried going two hours at a time without e-mail or blog access. The results were enlightening and a little embarrassing!
What about the rest of you, especially those who write at home? How do you control your e-mail and blog reading time?
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bummr it was not to your liking . tnx 4 the review
oh gosh - jersey shore? not good. that's too bad you didn't like this one as it has an interesting premise. :(
This is very disappointing since I was looking forward to this book. Jersey shore was enough to sway me.
I would still try reading it. I'll give it 50 pages.
Sorry Vivien! :(
Thanks for reading Roro. I'm sad I didn't like it. I had such high hopes for it!
Go for it! let me know what you think.
Ugh. It was just too slow, without being creepy. And the friendships and relationships were so messed up, I didn't like any of the characters.