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Reality Check (Laura Geringer Books)

by Peter Abrahams

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Staff Pick

Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for best young adult mystery book, Reality Check is a fast-paced and tightly plotted novel that will keep you glued to the pages till the very end. Although the disappearance of the main character's girlfriend is at the heart of the novel, Reality Check is also a story about self discovery. Recommended for readers in ninth grade and up.
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QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest—and smartest—girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career. But bad things come in threes—or in Cody's case, sixes and twelves—and the worst is yet to come. While limping through town one day, Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex, has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to Cody the morning of her disappearance. With that as his guide, Cody sets out to find out what happened. Once in Vermont, he unearths the town's secrets—and finds out that football isn't the only thing he's good at.

Reality Check is another edge-of-your-seat suspense novel by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author of Down the Rabbit Hole.

Review:

"In the latest engrossing crime novel from Abrahams (Nerve Damage), Colorado football star Cody Laredo's junior year has gotten off to a dreadful start. After his girlfriend, Clea, is sent to a boarding school across the country (triggering a fight and a breakup), he tears his ACL during a football game and quickly spirals into a depression that leads to him dropping out of school. When he learns that Clea has gone missing, he decides to travel across the country to investigate. When he gets to Vermont, Cody meets Clea's new boyfriend, encounters a friendly cop and has run-ins with locals from the town and rich kids from the boarding school. Although clues often come too easily and coincidentally to Cody — Abrahams pushes hard to explain away the flaws surrounding the pivotal piece of evidence — and the 'whodunit' is hardly surprising, Abrahams tells an exciting, fast-paced story. Cody and most of the teens he encounters — both out west and in Vermont — are complex characters with believable motivations and faults, plot issues aside. Ages 12 — up." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

About the Author

Peter Abrahams is the bestselling author of Delusion, Nerve Damage, End of Story, Oblivion, The Fan, Behind the Curtain, and Into the Darkas well as Lights Outand Down the Rabbit Hole, for both of which he received Edgar Award nominations. Peter makes his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780061227660
Author:
Abrahams, Peter
Publisher:
Harper Teen
Author:
Peter, Abrahams
Subject:
Missing persons
Subject:
High schools
Subject:
Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
Subject:
Sports & Recreation - Football
Subject:
Law & Crime
Subject:
Schools
Subject:
Mysteries & Detective Stories
Subject:
Children s Middle Readers-General
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series:
Laura Geringer Books
Publication Date:
20090431
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Grade Level:
from 7
Language:
English
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.5 in 14.64 oz
Age Level:
from 12

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Product details 336 pages Harper Teen - English 9780061227660 Reviews:
"Staff Pick" by ,

Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for best young adult mystery book, Reality Check is a fast-paced and tightly plotted novel that will keep you glued to the pages till the very end. Although the disappearance of the main character's girlfriend is at the heart of the novel, Reality Check is also a story about self discovery. Recommended for readers in ninth grade and up.

"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "In the latest engrossing crime novel from Abrahams (Nerve Damage), Colorado football star Cody Laredo's junior year has gotten off to a dreadful start. After his girlfriend, Clea, is sent to a boarding school across the country (triggering a fight and a breakup), he tears his ACL during a football game and quickly spirals into a depression that leads to him dropping out of school. When he learns that Clea has gone missing, he decides to travel across the country to investigate. When he gets to Vermont, Cody meets Clea's new boyfriend, encounters a friendly cop and has run-ins with locals from the town and rich kids from the boarding school. Although clues often come too easily and coincidentally to Cody — Abrahams pushes hard to explain away the flaws surrounding the pivotal piece of evidence — and the 'whodunit' is hardly surprising, Abrahams tells an exciting, fast-paced story. Cody and most of the teens he encounters — both out west and in Vermont — are complex characters with believable motivations and faults, plot issues aside. Ages 12 — up." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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