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Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy everyone refuses to take action against him and his powerful family. A frightening drama that deals with heavy teen issues and the idea of justice (or lack thereof) from bestselling author Richard Peck
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This was a terrifying book for someone who babysat as much as I did. I seem to recall a similar book from the same era about a girl who got raped when she accepted a ride from a stranger. She made a joke that enraged the driver about his other car, presumably a sports car, being in the shop, and he misinterpreted this as her being mercenary, which was not her intention, but as I remember was a sort of trigger for his violence.
Her family was supportive in a lukewarm way (although her father could ...more
Her family was supportive in a lukewarm way (although her father could ...more
I borrowed this from Clare for two reasons: I love Richard Peck's Blossom Culp books (esp the first), and Clare had just identified this book as a y/a novel that had blown her mind because the protagonist gets raped and nothing ever happens to the rapist. We were both curious to find out/remember what the hell this book was. Anyway, it was good. And actually kind of scary. I'm glad someone wrote it.
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I remember when everyone in junior high was reading this book, so I had to read it too--I expected something really horrible and taboo to happen. But it was pretty tame. This is probably because I was reading Stephen King in junior high...
Kind of fun for a thriller, but very dated and has major plot flaws.
Re-read June 2002.
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