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The Weirdo (Paperback) (2006)

The Weirdo (Paperback) (2006)

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ISBN
0152056661 (ISBN13: 9780152056667)
Language
English
Publisher
hmh books for young readers

About book The Weirdo (Paperback) (2006)

1)I just got done reading "The Weirdo"."The Weirdo" is a really well done book. The author manage to keep a suspens and mystery going through out the whole book. To start with he made the sitting in a lovely neighbor hood , but jet the neighbor hood had a swamp closedby. A girl named "Samantha" She was a typical girl a she had a pretty normal life,she went to school like every other person until she decided to go to the swamp one day, As she gets to closer to the swamp she incounters a dead body at the very edge of the swamp. She was nine years old when that happen since then she been scared to go by the swamp.Chip aka "The Weirdo" (the nickname given by the town people),has been living inside the swamp for ages. Now Samatha 16 years old and she wants to find out what lias behind the Powhatan swamp.While the Powhatan hunting is about to begin............ 2) The number one reason what made me love this books is, I loved how the author made the plot so interesting so suspenful. An some how he knew what i was craving for was suspens.3) For my mystery,scary.creepy,chills getting,suspensful loving freinds i recommend you to read this after 10 pages its going to leave you bitting your nails. 4)"Though he was tired ,Chip stuggled with sleep. He tried to ster his mind away from times past and think only abouth tomorrow snd the future"(Taylor,Pg96)This quote made me remember the time were i wanted the day to end and i wanted tomarrow to come by and start fresh or even better everything would of been forgotten.

I didn't really want to read this book, but since Ben needs to read it I thought I would. The award "Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery" didn't inspire my enthusiam either, but I actually enjoyed the book and read it in two days. (Of course I spend hours on the couch holding a child so I had the time). I suppose there was mystery involved, but for me the central focus was more the relationship between the girl and the "disfigured" boy, as well as their individual and then joint "relationship" with the swamp - he loves it and he hides in it whereas she fears it and hides from it.

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i think this book is okay. i like the setting of it and the story about chip is really sad. i like this book because it really gives the reader a great mental image of what's going on. i like how everybody thinks chip is weird and a freak. but if people got to know him they would find out that he's nice and means well. i hate the fact that because everybody judges him he thinks that he has to live in the woods away from everybody. while reading this book i got more and more into it. I was happy when i read what happened to chip. i was curious the whole time about why people called him weird. i felt good about the whole situation when Telford offered him a job searching for bears to count the population. i would be super bored out in the middle of the woods alone with one other person. I'm sure he was excited to finally be doing something different. this was a great read and im happy i chose it. i would definitely suggest this book to my friends.
—chase l

I decided to read this book because the cover of it intrigued me. This girl when she was little went into the swamp and found a dead body. I was very exited to read the story and was not able to put it down. It was a about This girl when she was little went into the swamp and found a dead body. Later,the girl was back in the swamp and a man that people call "The Weirdo" helped her safely to his house offering her food and drinks. They ended up having a good relationship as friends. This story has some mystery to it but it's mostly about the relationship between Sam and the weirdo.
—Steven Walsh

older teen loses mother and sister in plane wreck prior to the book starting; boy lives with father in remote seaside town after that and is “saved” by a Ph.D student studying bear habitate patterns in an area where bear hunting has been prohibited for last 5-years; boy meets girl and both tackle the issues surrounding whether the prohibition should continue. Oh, such nice character development for every single one of the characters (there were more than a few); author has written many Young Adult Books; raised in state of NC but now living in state of CA; per jacket cover this book “grew out of his (author’s) experiences in and around NC and Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp…” 1991 hardback via Morgan, 289 pgs.; read Oct. ‘13/#56
—Dale Barlow

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