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It's a difficult time for Amy--her two best friends have abandoned her and she's feeling lonely and vulnerable. Then, she meets Zed in an internet chat room and their online relationship quickly develops. Amy is thrilled to consider him her boyfriend. But is Zed the person he claims to be? Against her own better judgement and despite her parents warnings, Amy meets Zed at the beach--with frightening consequences.
Schools and libraries, parents and young adults will appreciate this insightful, well-written novel. Mary Hooper delivers a cautionary story for today that is entirely realistic, never preachy and utterly gripping.
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Mary Hooper began writing about twenty years ago, often short stories for women's and teen magazines. She now focuses solely on books. Mary lives in Eversley Cross, England.
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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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- PublisherBloomsbury USA Childrens
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 158234793X
- ISBN 13 9781582347936
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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