rebecita's review against another edition
This book was really grabbing me, but the INSANE amount of backstory crammed into the beginning started to ring some warning bells... Gah, turns out that despite being labeled #1 it's actually a follow-up to another trilogy! These modern kids' series are as bad as comic books with their infinite variations and spin-offs! Seriously, I shelve these books for a living and cannot keep them straight.
azra_benic's review against another edition
3.0
most quick reads are under 3 stars there ideas put together wrong but Gorden Korman made a masterpiece of a quick read.
engpunk77's review against another edition
3.0
After 6 years of trying, I've found that Christopher Pike just can't captivate or even hold for a minute any of my kids, so I have to move on to more modern books, I suppose. It's just so hard to get into cheap thrillers anymore, but this one worked for me.
This is the first Korman I've read, and now I think I'll try some of his other books that creep out of every crevice in my classroom. I keep getting these titles as bonus-point picks from Scholastic, and their enticing covers just don't entice my population of 7th & 8th graders, but I've also found that my kids don't ever seem to get into books that I haven't raved about first.
I read it in about 2 hours (I'm a slow reader, and it was adequately suspenseful. Now, I have to see if it works with the kids.
This is the first Korman I've read, and now I think I'll try some of his other books that creep out of every crevice in my classroom. I keep getting these titles as bonus-point picks from Scholastic, and their enticing covers just don't entice my population of 7th & 8th graders, but I've also found that my kids don't ever seem to get into books that I haven't raved about first.
I read it in about 2 hours (I'm a slow reader, and it was adequately suspenseful. Now, I have to see if it works with the kids.
e_lace's review against another edition
3.0
To be completely honest, I liked the original Falconers series. The spin-off series Kidnapped really wasn't my favorite. It required the two kids to go through a series of seriously crazy happenings to find each other with a few expected secrets unveiled along the way. I wasn't crazy about it but it was okay for a spin-off...
definitely not my favorite but it is a good read-aloud.
definitely not my favorite but it is a good read-aloud.
fromtacostoteaching's review
4.0
For a kids’ book, this was pretty good. Likeable characters and interesting story. 4th or 5th grade students would probably enjoy this series.
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