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Wolf Rider (original 1986; edition 2008)

by Avi

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Member:Omrythea
Title:Wolf Rider
Authors:Avi
Info:Simon Pulse (2008), Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:***1/2
Tags:teen, phone call, threat, scary, thriller, teen, YA, Oberon Reading List 2008, betray, trust, mental illness, murder, male character,

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Wolf Rider by Avi (1986)

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15 year old andy zadinski get a rather scary phone call a person named zeke who told him on the phone that he had killed a girl named nina kellmer and Andy investigates the crime he fineds that not only is nina is real she is alive at the collage his dad teaches at the collage and in the story he never stopes investigating so he gets in alot of trouble will with the cops and the giudence counseler and it hurts his father alot ( )
  solock | Dec 20, 2012 |
Fifteen year-old Andy Zadinski receives an alarming phone call from a man named Zeke who claims he has killed a woman. After no one believes Andy about the incident, Andy takes it upon himself to investigate and discovers that the local college student has not been killed and that the potential killer is a math professor who teaches with his father.

Avi succeeds in hooking the reader in the first few sentences of the book. The reader learns that Andy, the protagonist, receives a phone call and the voice on the other end claims that he has just killed someone. Immediately the reader is drawn in and wants to know who this voice is and why he is calling Andy. Suspense builds throughout this mystery thriller as Andy tries to uncover who the man is behind the voice after the police, his father, and the school counselor do not appreciate the seriousness or plausibility of Andy's story. The plot moves quickly and will appeal to young adult readers looking for an enjoyable book full of suspense. Young adult readers will be able to relate to Andy's situation, as he is not taken seriously and struggles with doing the right thing, as he wants to protect the young woman but does not want to hurt his father.
  jessica.kohout | Feb 27, 2010 |
The book was pretty bad, but it was one of the better school novels we read. I thought it was wierd how on the first page, you know what the mystery was, but I wouldn't consider it a mystery because they giuve you the answer halfway through the book. ( )
  MissReadsALot | Dec 23, 2008 |
Pulsating. I read when I was eight and wanted to make a movie about it. Not Avi's regular writing much more intense. ( )
  bookworm1996 | Oct 18, 2008 |
This book was on a middle school summer reading list. Not what I usually expect from Avi. Awfully dark. It is like a beginning thriller novel for teens. Not too scary, but still pretty intense. The writing does keep you engaged so you can see what is going to happen. The reality factor seems a little low and it is frustrating that his dad and the police are so unwilling to take him seriously. ( )
  Omrythea | Aug 10, 2008 |
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Andy is being convinced that it was all a joke. i this part Andy introduced his father named Dr. Zadinski. He works at a college, and is a teacher for mathematics. One afternoon Andy went to his fathers office and a contact book and decided to look for the name nina. He found out that it her name was real, it wasn't just random. He looked for her and found out she looks like how Zeke had described her. So now he doesn't believe its a joke. In his house he had other problems, his om was going to be dead for a year now. His father wants to forget about her death. His father wants to start dating, but Andy doesn't want to.
added by janette15 | editlos ageles time, jnette farias (Oct 18, 2009)
 
The main chracter name is Andy. one night Andy gets a call an hears "i killed some one". Andy says who is this the person says "Zeke". zeke says i just killed my girl friend. Andy says what was her name. zeke says "Nina".The only thing in Andys mand is the police. Pual Andys friend ia worried listening to him across the room. Andy tells him to call ythe cops. he goes to the nieghbors house an uses the phone. Andy is on the line with zeke. but when zeke hanges up, Andy goes to the police station an ask if they got the call. but they wouldnt belive him. They just say its a cry for wolf.
added by janette15 | editlos angeles times, janette15 (Oct 11, 2009)
 
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The book that I'm reading is about a murder that one name andy has to solve the problem. She recieve a call from one guy name zeke. He said that he kill a girl name nina.She call the police but they didn't do nothing Now she has to find zeke and nina. She found out that was a girl name nina klemmer.She is going a college. Andy try to warn nina but she thought that was not true. Andywent to the police to talk to them that nina was real and was going to the college. The police didn't do nothing because andy has to have proves.

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In th estory andy was looking for zeke. She thought that her father left the number on the office. His father had a meeting that day. She thought that someone in that have taken the number. If someone took the number was name zeke.

She went to the office and look for someone name zeke.She didn't found noone wiht that name inthe meeting.She went back to his houseand on his room. I think that she need to forget that call. The thing that she is doing are going to get her in more trouble

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andy call a number when they answer, hear the voice of zeke. Andy hung up, and try to call again and someone answer and hung up.Andy didn't know what to do. She wanted to call the police but they weren't do nothing. In school she couldn't pay attentoin.

she was all in the back ofthe room. Andy had to warm nina. Andy had to be 100% tosee if lucas is zeke. In the department office there was a wall chart, she saw the name of Dr.lucas had room B-316. She went to the office but was lock. She discoverd that lucas was teaching maht in room 520.

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Andy now that lucas was zeke and wanted to kill nani. Andy call lucas saying that nani on late hour in the college. The father of andy wanted to take her with aunt. Andy doesn't had lot of time she had to be more quick. On that day that nani was going to get uot late nani andy wait for lucas. It was dark andy was in back of a tree looking at the stars. Andy felt something on his back it was lucas.

Andy wass cared hse new that was lucas with a nife. Lucas didn't know what to do with. Andy got out the car some how and lucas lost the control of the car and crash. Andys dad was looking for her, his dad call the police that andy came back. His father went to school the next day. Later his father took andy to the airport and his father told andy to come back soon and that lucas had was kill in a car crash. Andy said bey to his father and left.


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After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed a murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

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