Amy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408804182 ISBN 13: 9781408804186

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Hooper, Mary

About this title

About the Author

Mary Hooper is a very popular writer for children and young adults. Mary's brilliant historical novels, At the House of the Magician, By Royal Command, At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Petals in the Ashes and The Extraordinary Life and Times of Eliza Rose have a huge fan base, as do her contemporary novels for teenagers, such as the Megan series. Mary is very much in demand for her events at literary festivals and schools. She lives in Henley-on-Thames.

From Publishers Weekly

In Hooper's (Megan) briskly paced Internet "sex-crime" novel, Amy narrates her cautionary tale as a rather unwieldy case report to a policewoman. Amy is part of a foursome of teenaged English girlfriends until one friend moves away and she becomes a third wheel. "So, with the end of the Amy-Bethany-Lou friendship, I had to find something to replace it." In a chat room one day, she begins talking with "Zed," who claims he's 18, and decides to meet him, despite her own intuitions about the danger, plus warnings from her parents and new geeky-but-wise friend "Beaky." Zed indeed turns out to be a pervert who gives Amy a date rape drug and then, as she later recalls through "flashbacks," proceeds to photograph her naked (he does not rape her). Amy comes across convincingly ("When people are described as being a `bit of a loner,' it sounds as if they're deep and mysterious, but actually all it means is that they haven't got anyone to go round with, and how sad is that?") even if readers may question whether Amy would adopt this voice for a police report ("He was my one big hope in the world and I wanted him to be everything I'd dreamed he'd be"); the transcripts of e-mail exchanges read more credibly. But in the end the message trumps the momentum of the story which, although horrific in its content, may leave readers wondering how Amy's feeling about all that's happened. Ages 10-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1408804182
• ISBN 13: 9781408804186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176