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I Text Dead People
Author:
Cooper, Rose
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Series:
Dead serious
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Class:
Fiction
Age: 8-12
Language: English
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LC: PZ7.C787
Grade: 3-7
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ISBN-13: 9780385743914
LCCN: 2014020235
Imprint: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Pub Date: 06/09/2015
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $12.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
H 8.5",
W 5.63",
D 0.75",
0.7625 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
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Bibliographies:
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Social Issues
Occult Fiction
Friendship
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Adolescence & Coming of Age
JUVENILE FICTION / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
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LC Subjects:
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Dead, Fiction
Dead, Juvenile fiction
Future life, Fiction
Future life, Juvenile fiction
Schools, Fiction
Schools, Juvenile fiction
Text messages (Cell phone systems), Fiction
Text messages (Cell phone systems), Juvenile fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Dead, Fiction
Future life, Fiction
School stories
Text messages (Cell phone systems), Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
4.4
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Points: 6.0
Lexile Level:
620
Reading Counts Level:
3.5
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Points: 10.0
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| Annotations |
| Publisher Annotations | 09/23/2014 |
| You can't block the dead. Annabel Craven hopes she'll fit in-maybe even be popular-at the Academy. She's worried she'll stay friendless and phoneless (it's true). But when she finds a mysterious phone in the woods near the cemetery, one of her problems is solved . . . and another one is just beginning. Someone won't stop texting her. And that someone seems . . . dead. How is Annabel supposed to make friends when her phone keeps blowing up with messages from the afterlife? And what will happen if she doesn't text back? |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Booklist | 04/15/2015 |
| Grades 5-7. Anna's mom has inherited Maddsen Manor, precipitating a move to a new town and Anna being transferred to a new school. Anna wrestles with the usual--making new friends, finding her classes, navigating a new social hierarchy--but things are complicated by the cell phone she finds in the graveyard next to Mad Manor, a phone that only receives calls from dead people. Anna can pass the calls off as pranks on the new girl, until another student dies suddenly and wants to use Anna to get back at her boyfriend. This quirky story's author has clearly been influenced by Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl. Humorous at moments, painful at others, this middle-school novel is also flawed by uneven storytelling that allows for inexplicable changes in character and plot. Still, the title will pull in readers, the illustrations help turn pages, and waiting for the outcome should keep them turning pages until the end. Moore, Melissa. 256. Booklist Online. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2015. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 11/01/2015 |
| 4. The problems Anna faces as the new girl in school become significantly more complicated when she starts receiving texts from a ghost. Instead of worrying about where to sit at lunch, now Anna must contend with a dead (and needy) social misfit, troublesome cliques, and her mom's new job as a "corpse cosmetologist." This intentionally silly ghost story is entertaining if overly cutesy. ler. 234pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2015. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 03/01/2015 |
| Thirteen-year-old Anna has just moved into the creepy mansion next to the cemetery and has hopes of making friends in her posh new school.She finds a cellphone that might replace the one she lost, but it only works sporadically, sending her cryptic texts. Meanwhile she meets Millie, a nice girl in school, who warns her about the twin queen bees, Olivia and Eden, who manipulate Anna into doing their homework. Everyone in her new town seems to be rich except Anna's family, though, as long as she continues to do their homework for them, Olivia and Eden tolerate her. But when Lucy, a girl with a delusional crush on a classmate, is accidentally killed in the cemetery, Anna begins receiving texts from her on the phone. Not understanding that she's dead, Lucy demands that Anna help her, haunting her ever more intrusively. Cooper writes with a light style and demonstrates keen insight into the social anxieties of middle schoolers. She occasionally includes her own whimsical line drawings that add to the humorous tone of the book. A really nice plot twist at the end should please readers. Good, ghostly fun. (Paranormal suspense. 9-12). 256pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2015. |
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| School Library Journal | 04/01/2015 |
| Gr 5-8--When Anna moves to a new town, she hopes that the mansion her mom inherited from an uncle will make life in her snooty new school a bit easier. The hardest part, being phoneless, seems to be solved when she finds a phone on her way to school. Soon life gets a bit crazy with cliques causing trouble at school, a creepy guy following her around, the boy she likes dating someone else, and the dead people texting her to ask for help. With a fast-paced, plot-heavy style, this book careens between high school drama and ghostly intrigue. Cooper attempts to weave in suspense, horror, and quirky humor while creating relatable characters resulting in a fun but slightly scattered novel for tweens. Younger readers will appreciate a sanitized peek into high school relationships that focuses more on predictable relationship conflicts with unpredictable horror lines thrown in to keep the story interesting and fresh. VERDICT None of the novel's content would prevent it from sitting comfortably in an elementary school library where it is sure to attract fans looking for something scary--but not too scary. Elizabeth Nicolai, Anchorage Public Library, AK. 256p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2015. |
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| ~VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates Magazine - Retired Journal) | 06/01/2015 |
| 3Q 4P M. It is bad enough that Annabel Craven has just moved into a creepy old mansion next to a cemetery and has to start a new school, but she has also destroyed her cell phone in the wash. This proves to be particularly troublesome when she comes across a weird guy in the cemetery demanding that she return what she took from him. A very confused Anna runs away, trips over a cell phone, and decides to pocket it on her way to school. Things continue to get more confusing for Anna as it becomes clear that her newly found phone has very special capabilities--mainly, texting the dead. When one of Anna's new classmates is killed in a tragic accident, Anna must use her phone to help solve the mystery. I Text Dead People has a funny, unique premise, and Anna is an interesting protagonist. There are some expected and unexpected twists, and the major mystery is wrapped up nicely. While some parts of the book do not add up as well as they should, tweens will not care about minor flaws and will instead focus on enjoying Anna's entertaining character. They will be glad to know that more adventures are planned for Cooper's Dead Serious series.--Jennifer McIntosh. 240p. VOICE OF YOUTH ADVOCATES, c2015. |
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