book report!

Giles, Gail. What Happened to Cass McBride. New York. Little, Brown Young Readers: 2006.

Reason, Type and Setting: I just asked my mom to look for young adult and mystery books and that's what my mom picked out. So I decided to read this because the back sounded interesting. This movie is a mystery/fiction book that takes place in the 2000's, it seems like a timeless book though.

Plot: In the beginning it started from a guy in an interrogation room, throughout the book you learned about the events that led to the girl being kidnapped and buried under the greenhouse. You learn why the brother [Kyle Kirby] kidnapped her because of the suicide of her brother. You explore into the lives of the Kirby's and the McBrides. Cass talks to Kyle and in the end she uses her dad's tactics to find the opponents softspot, and exploits it until they both realize that Kyle's mom was really the one who drove him to suicide.


Character: Cass McBride is one of the main characters. She has brown hair, she's tan, she's lean. She's a popular pretty girl. She munipulates situations to how she wants them to happen. She knows how to munipulate people also because of her dad's nature.

Evaluation: I liked this book, it was really raw though and intense, like Lovely Bones the book I just read. This book was really interesting because you got to see the intentions behind the characters and you got to see how connected people were without knowing it. It also made me think about all the times that I said something mean or hurtful towards someone and made me really regret it because I would never want to push someone to suicide. I think the point of the book was be careful what you say, because you never know who will hear and how much it'll affect someone. I would recommend this book to anyone who liked a mystery. This book is based off of real life things because people deal I don't think this book is neccesary to read but I think it is neccesary to realize that words are harsh and you should also think before you say things.

Author, Context and Trivia: I don't really know anything about her, but I know she has written other books because my mom brought another one of her books home for me.


Reader Response; "I had been buried, buried....alive." "My breathing slowed down, not from calmness, but from hopelessness." These quotes were really like just realizations made by Cass McBride. They made me think about how I would react during those situations. It's amazing how she survived throughout and through all those days. And how she talks her way out of a situation. I chose this quote because it made me think a lot.