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Loading... Are You in the House Alone?by Richard Peck
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  lisaisbusynerding | Dec 27, 2008 |  Its about a girl named Gail Osburne finds a note in her locker then another note couple days later then Gail starts getting strange phone calls. Her friends ell her to forget about the notes and calls but Gail can't. She talks to the principle at her school and guidance teachers to help her find out who is doing this to her. C.M. hsreader | Jun 25, 2008 | Sixteen year old, Gail, must deal with her life in a small town, as she gets stalked and eventually raped. Richard Peck does an excellent job of keeping the reader on the edge of his seat as Gail tries to figure out who is watching her. This book brings up ethical questions on whether or not there can be justice for rape victims. Some vocabulary in this story is outdated and will be hard for students without a lot of prior knowledge of the 70's to understand. I would recommend this book for high school students, and especially classes where moral dilemmas can be discussed. (  ) mblaze | Mar 20, 2008 |  rwhowell | Jun 28, 2007 | hilla | Jun 25, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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i must confess, this has been on my to-read list for awhile, but after a recent conversation with my friend elizabeth about goosebumps and fear street, i decided that now was the time to read it. i was hoping for something that would be so absorbingly scary that i could jump up in my seat as i was reading! high expectations, i know, but this book did a pretty darn good job of getting there.
you're introduced to a multitude of characters that could be the creep doing these things to gail, so you're guessing along with her to try and discover who the guy is.the first 2/3 of the book was what i expected - mysterious, creepy, scary, angsty. after the 'event' that shifts the story, i was not sure what to expect for the last 1/3 of it. however, this was a scary story, and if the scary part happens before the end, what are we to do with the rest? good thing richard peck had an idea of what to do, and executed it well.
at the same time viewing the entitlement issues of small town-high school dynamics and relationships paired with a suspensefully uncomfortable undertone, this book takes a hard look at some tough issues. as someone who is an avid Lifetime Movie Network fan and Law and Order: SVU, this book particularly spoke to me. happy endings are not a given. punishment isn't always just. victims sometimes make themselves more of a victim from their lack of action. if the first 2/3 of the book is the mystery, the last 1/3 is the genius of the author for taking that mystery and making it feel tangible and real.
though a bit clumsy in parts, especially with the veiled conclusion at the end, are you in the house alone was a thrill ride for the first part and a thoughtful pondering for the last part which made for a unique and relevant book. in particular, the last conversation between the mother and daughter about the overall conclusion. that gave me the heebie jeebies. i was hoping for something better than Fear Street (my memory of Fear Street rather as i have not read them since i was about 10), and i was not disappointed.
fave quotes: "When you've got a problem your friends can't face, you become a...leper" (87)
"I felt drunk with all the knowledge. I knew hew was missing an important, human part. Call it insanity if you feel like making excuses for him. He thought everything belonged to him and that he could do no wrong. Nobody had ever told him otherwise. At that moment it didn't even chill me to realize how many people there are like that in this world." (147)
fix er up: there were some loose ties i was not down with. the family's lawyer after the incident just sorts of fades into the background for example. (