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Title: Flash Fire (Point) by Caroline B. Cooney, Husain ISBN: 0-590-48496-6 Publisher: Pointe Pubs Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A page-turner
Comment: Caroline Cooney's "Flash Fire" is a real page turner. I think that anyone who reads this book will be almost guarenteed to enjoy it. Although I think "Emergency Room" is better for the writing style, teachers will find this book easy to use for novel studies. I just had to read this book for a novel study and so many kids read ahead. They were unable to stop reading ahead. Here is a part from the book that I remember: As Hall Press laid in his swimming pool staring up at the orange sky, resembling a basketball, a group of bikers jumped over the hill, the fire right on their heels and disapeared into the canyon. Now, this may not be the exact words but that was the way I enterpreted it. The only thing that you have to keep in mind is to pay close attention to what happens so you don't wind up like a classmate of mine. As we were in reading group, discussing the ending of the book he asked "Did he die??"
If you are pondering the answer to this question, read "Flash Fire". You won't be disapointed! :)
Rating: 5
Summary: A suspenseful cliff hanger
Comment: Flash Fire is definately a 5 star rating! Caroline B. Cooney is an excellent suspenseful author. If you like to read and I mean not stop, this is a book for you. At the end of every section there is a cliff hanger which makes you want to go on! We read this for our natural disaster unit in school. We had to read a section a day, but kids couldn't stop at the end of each section and kept reading. (Each section was about 20-30 pages.) I recomend this to teachers who are looking for a great book for novel studies, and kids who love adventures. This a sad and happy book. You see conflicts from two points of view. You meet a whole bunch of characters, each different in their own way! You learn a lot about California and natural disasters. Read this book to find out if the kids can make it down through the huge Pinch Canyon Fire. Do you think they'll make it down?
Rating: 2
Summary: Cardboard Characters Burn Easily
Comment: Although this was a page turner of a natural disaster thriller, I was more annoyed by than concerned for some of the characters. Dana is not a "typical" teenager, wealthy or not, to be whining that she isn't in the thick of things. Are all wealthy parents that self-involved and shallow? I wanted to reach into the pages, grab Beau's mother by the lapels and slap her until her head spun on her shoulders. What an evil woman! Ditto Geoffrey's adoptive parents.
On the other hand, are all poor people so cold, callous and cruel as the Gormans? As Chiffon? Didn't anyone wish that Chiffon got trapped into one of those made-for-tv movie turns of fate in which the cruel, mean, white-trash chick would get burned to a crisp?
There was no character development, no character change, no one, except maybe for Hall, made any real discoveries about themselves or others. (No, Dana DID get a clue toward the end that she was being pretty useless. I forgot that.)
I can't say I was bored and I do realize the story takes place in less than two hours, but it would have been nice to see some actual character development, maturing and even a little comeuppance.
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Title: Flight Number 116 Is Down by Caroline B. Cooney ISBN: 0590444794 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Emergency Room by Caroline B. Cooney ISBN: 0590457403 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Wanted! by Caroline B. Cooney ISBN: 0590988492 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney ISBN: 0440219817 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Murder in the Holy Place (Left Behind: The Kids, 30) by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim F. Lahaye, Chris Fabry ISBN: 0842357947 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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