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Book Report / Novel Summary
Peretti, Frank. Hangman's Curse. Place of Publication. Company: 2001.

I selected this book because I read House by him and my neighbor recommended this book to me. This book is a mystery, action, spiritual book. At a high school in the United States, in current times 19902 - 2000s.


Plot: There is a family [Nate [dad], Sarah [mom], Elijah [son] and Elisha [daughter]] that investigates. Elijah and Elisha go undercover to invesgiate mysterious occurances at a high school. There was a boy named Abel Frye that supposedly hung himself because of being bullying; and the football team are being to go crazy one by one saying they saw Abel Frye. The kids find out that Abel Frye ghost is being controled by a cult that is made up of people treated like Abel Frye and are using this as revenge. Elisha looks through everyone's lockers that were killed and she finally sees a pattern, straws with sugar crystals things. The family's scientist friend comes and identifies it as a pheromone to attract a poisonous spider combined of the brown recluse and African Spotted wolf spider. The pheromone got onto money too so other people died like a girl from the cult. They finally find out that it was Norman Bloom [the leader]. They clear the school and the scientist makes an antidote.


Character: Elisha. She is very smart and a good detective. She plays an undercover detective in high school trying to figure out what is happening to the students. Because she seemed smart and easy to relate to.


Evaluation: Yes I did like the novel, At first I really did think the ghost was making the kids hallucinate. It kept me reading until I found out what happening. It also made me scared I thought a spider was going to bite me and kill me. I think the main point was revenge isn't the answer. It also thought me that bullying can really influence someone's life. Like House it had Christian morals in it so I don't know if people would want to read it. Like House it shows that bullying and saying things about people affects them a lot more than people realize. It also showed revenge isn't the answer to problems. I liked how the book ended. Everyone learned their lesson and it had good morals.


Author, Context and Trivia: Monster, The Visitation, The Oath, This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness. He is a Christian writer that writes mystery and action books. House. I;m not sure which I liked better this one definitely made me cringe thinking about spiders. Yes I do plan to read more of him.




Reader Response
Quote and Comment: Select a quote of interest. Copy it down and record the page number. Comment upon the quote. What does it remind you of? Why is it significant? How is it connected to other things? What difference does it make? What if things had been different? What evidence does it present?Photo Copy Mark Up: Go to copy machine and make copies of ten pages of your reading. Take a highlighter and highlight the important passages. With a pencil or pen make comments in the margins. Ask questions about the text. See the above question for comments you might make in the margins.



Quote and comment: Select an important quote from the text you are reading. Place you selection in quotation marls and provide the page number. Comment upon your selection. Why did you choose it? Why is it important?
Quote and Comment using the Habits of Mind: Who said it? (Perspective) How do we know that it is true? (Evidence) Why is it important? (Significance or Relevance) How is it related to other things? (Connections) How could it be different? (Supposition)