It was only an accident--but it would change their lives forever. Last summer, four, terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking ...
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Sep 03, 2007
Karschtl
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Four kids drive home after a high-school-party, everyone - including the driver - a bit intoxicated and tipsy. Then happens what always happens in such situations: an accident on a dark road. They knocked over a young boy, riding with his bicycle. For fear of the police they don't administer first aid but instead do a hit-and-run.
One year later - they've almost forgotten the incident, they're reminded of it via mysterious letters. Someone outside of their circle seems to know their d More...
One year later - they've almost forgotten the incident, they're reminded of it via mysterious letters. Someone outside of their circle seems to know their d More...
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Jan 23, 2012
Grace
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I realized most of my friends borrowed books that are totally different from what I read. I decided to try out a book that seemed scary. The book “I Know What You Did This Summer” was the first book that I saw so I chosed it. “I Know What You Did This Summer” is a book about four friends that accidently killed a boy during summer and gotten away with it. They thought everything was over but the boy’s brother knew what had happened and wanted revenge. In this book my favorite quote was the conver
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Dec 30, 2011
Lyndsey
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Being a massive lover of horror films, I was quite excited to read this book. I don’t read a lot of horror books or books that have been made into films in general, just because of the worry of being let down but I was prepared to give this one a go. As much as I wanted to like it though, I just didn’t.
Characterisation was pretty weak from the very beginning. In the film, Julie James is quite likable because it seems like she has a head on her shoulders and actually has some morals bu More...
Characterisation was pretty weak from the very beginning. In the film, Julie James is quite likable because it seems like she has a head on her shoulders and actually has some morals bu More...
Nov 12, 2011
Kristine
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I was unaware that the movie was based on a book until my youth materials class had me read a controversial novel and this one was on the list. While several sources said it was vastly different from said film, I actually found it to be more similar than the movie gets credit for. Four friends accidentally hit a kill a boy riding his bicycle one night after drinking and smoking pot. They call the police but keep going, not revealing their identities. A year later, they begin receiving notes and
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Nov 13, 2011
Samiha
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
By Lois Duncan
Copyright: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0440228441
# Of pages: 208
Does this book title sound familiar? Yes, they made a movie out of this movie called "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Four friends have kept a secret for a year, a terrifying secret. They accidently killed a boy on a bicycle; it was basically a hit and run.
They make a pact to never talk about the incident again. Julie drops her friends, Ray l More...
By Lois Duncan
Copyright: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0440228441
# Of pages: 208
Does this book title sound familiar? Yes, they made a movie out of this movie called "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Four friends have kept a secret for a year, a terrifying secret. They accidently killed a boy on a bicycle; it was basically a hit and run.
They make a pact to never talk about the incident again. Julie drops her friends, Ray l More...
Oct 06, 2011
Hazel
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I opened this book with a good idea of what to expect, having read many other books by Lois Duncan. They're all a fantasy-horror-mystery mix with a chilling feel. And they always manage to creep you out, however slightly.
This one wasn't creepy. There was some mystery, but it only made you think a few times, and absolutly no fastasy. It started out rather exciting: Four kids, all of whom had this big secret. There was no telling what the secret was, but obviously it was something illegal an More...
This one wasn't creepy. There was some mystery, but it only made you think a few times, and absolutly no fastasy. It started out rather exciting: Four kids, all of whom had this big secret. There was no telling what the secret was, but obviously it was something illegal an More...
Mar 22, 2011
Amy
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"I Know What You Did Last Summer" is about these 4 teenagers named Barry, Julie, Ray and Helen had all coped with one little secret they had tragically kept for their whole summer. As things began to clear up, Julie recieves a threatning message... Immediately, Julie knew that someone has figured out her secret, a deadly secret. Julie and her friends undergo obstacles to find the messenger and put a end to their nightmares. They need to outsmart the killer before all of them dies befor
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Mar 09, 2011
Lindsey
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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER by Lois Duncan
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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER by Lois Duncan was a very descriptive novel. In fact, it was too descriptive. The characters were pretty true to life and most of the time believable. I didn't like how the author changes the characters different points of view, it was really confusing.
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER takes place in a small town in North Carolina, off the Atlantic Coast. Four teenagers- More...
Reviewed by Lindsey Dice
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER by Lois Duncan was a very descriptive novel. In fact, it was too descriptive. The characters were pretty true to life and most of the time believable. I didn't like how the author changes the characters different points of view, it was really confusing.
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER takes place in a small town in North Carolina, off the Atlantic Coast. Four teenagers- More...
Mar 07, 2010
Marcus
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This book is about some teenagers that went camping but the bad thing that happened when they were coming back home for their trip, there was a little boy on a bike who drove on the road. And the kids were drunk when they were driving so they didnt see him. So the teenagers hit the little boy on the bike, and they did kill that little boy. They made a pact to never tell anyone about it or ever bring it up again. It was working to, until this one little note that changed their lives forever.On th
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Feb 24, 2010
Sarai
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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER is a story about a group of four high school students who are involved in a hit and run accident which ends up killing a young boy. Speeding down the road late at night after hours of partying, the group strikes a young boy on his bicycle. Instead of stopping to help, the group drives to the nearest phone and makes an anonymous phone call to the police to report the accident. The group makes a pact not to tell what happ More...
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER is a story about a group of four high school students who are involved in a hit and run accident which ends up killing a young boy. Speeding down the road late at night after hours of partying, the group strikes a young boy on his bicycle. Instead of stopping to help, the group drives to the nearest phone and makes an anonymous phone call to the police to report the accident. The group makes a pact not to tell what happ More...
Aug 07, 2009
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!!WARNING THIS WARNING CONTAINS A SPOILER THAT THIS BOOK WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE.!!
Hopefully you didn't just read that. For those of you who were smart enough to skip that spoiler you can now read in confidence knowing that you will not be told that the book was made into a movie. You will live in happy naivety thinking that the book is a self-contained form of media in which this narrative lives. Unfortunately, you will be wrong.
Since I have neither read the book, nor s More...
Hopefully you didn't just read that. For those of you who were smart enough to skip that spoiler you can now read in confidence knowing that you will not be told that the book was made into a movie. You will live in happy naivety thinking that the book is a self-contained form of media in which this narrative lives. Unfortunately, you will be wrong.
Since I have neither read the book, nor s More...
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Aug 02, 2009
Karen
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I think they made this into a movie a few years ago, which looked really scary, even though I don't remember the book being scary at all. I read this in 8th grade, as did EVERYONE I know. We passed the book back and forth from class to class in the hallway, each reading a chapter at a time. The cover was pink and purple, not sure if this is the correct edition. Each chapter was told by a different character, and that was the first time I had encountered that style. I remember we all were guessin
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May 11, 2009
Uriel
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
This book is about 4 teenagers, Helen Rivers and her boyfriend Barry William, Julie James and her boyfriend Ray, who win a weekend trip because Helen had won the beauty pageant. They go party to a beach and when they are heading back home, something happened. Barry was drunk and dropped his liquor and distracted Ray, which caused him to hit a fishermen. Instead of calling the police and ambulance, they decided to keep it a secret because they thought it More...
This book is about 4 teenagers, Helen Rivers and her boyfriend Barry William, Julie James and her boyfriend Ray, who win a weekend trip because Helen had won the beauty pageant. They go party to a beach and when they are heading back home, something happened. Barry was drunk and dropped his liquor and distracted Ray, which caused him to hit a fishermen. Instead of calling the police and ambulance, they decided to keep it a secret because they thought it More...
Apr 21, 2009
Mike
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Lois Duncan’s I Know What You Did Last Summer was a nonstop thrill ride. From the first chapter to the last, I was captivated by the chilling story involving a group of teens who accidentally killed a boy.
This book was about four teens that were partying one night and hit a young boy. They were drinking and decided to keep the whole incident a secret, until they begin to get threatening messages form an anonymous person. They went their separate ways after the accident, but now they More...
This book was about four teens that were partying one night and hit a young boy. They were drinking and decided to keep the whole incident a secret, until they begin to get threatening messages form an anonymous person. They went their separate ways after the accident, but now they More...
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Dec 04, 2011
Lena
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This book was similar to a lot of other YA horror I've read. Too similar, maybe. It just didn't catch my attention like the other book I read by this author. Although it was okay, nothing about it stood out as terribly original. It seemed like I was reading one of the Christopher Pike books I loved so much as a kid. And although Duncan's book Stranger with My Face grabbed me and held on with the great suspense she built, I didn't feel it with this book. However, it was a quick, easy read that I
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Feb 22, 2011
Kirsty (overflowing library)
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I picked up this book worried about what I might be letting myself in for. I saw the film adapation a while back and didn;t think it was all that great. I am pleased to say it was nothing like the book at all and I really enjoyed it.
The book is similiar to the film in that a group of 4 friends are involved in covering up a fatal accident they had been part of a year or so previously. The group have since started to receive mysterious letters and taunting amongst other things as the s More...
The book is similiar to the film in that a group of 4 friends are involved in covering up a fatal accident they had been part of a year or so previously. The group have since started to receive mysterious letters and taunting amongst other things as the s More...
Oct 25, 2010
Brianna
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I know what you did last summer is a classic mystery that I think we have all heard about, It is a simple story about four teenagers who have an accident one summer night, they make a pact to never talk about it again, and they never do. But one day Julie recives a letter in the mail that reads 'I know what you did last summer', and the mystery starts from there.
I think that it was a pretty good book, but it is not one of the best mystery books that I have read. It is a classic mystery, an More...
I think that it was a pretty good book, but it is not one of the best mystery books that I have read. It is a classic mystery, an More...
Jul 12, 2011
Marina
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A group of teenagers returning home from a party late at night accidently run over a boy riding a bicycle. In panic they try to decide what to do, which results in a pact of never mentioning the incident to anyone. A year later a note arrives at the house of one of the teens that was in the car saying " I know what you did last summer". The group of teens get back togather to figure out if the note may mean the murder of some sick prank someone is playing on them. When thin More...
A group of teenagers returning home from a party late at night accidently run over a boy riding a bicycle. In panic they try to decide what to do, which results in a pact of never mentioning the incident to anyone. A year later a note arrives at the house of one of the teens that was in the car saying " I know what you did last summer". The group of teens get back togather to figure out if the note may mean the murder of some sick prank someone is playing on them. When thin More...
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Jan 21, 2011
Lindsey
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Julie, Ray, Helen, and Barry did something horrible. They made a pact never to speak about the incident again. But almost a year later, a note comes to Julie in the mail saying that someone knows. The group of teenagers had hit a little boy on a bicycle going home one night. That wasn’t the worst part. They left him. They didn’t go back. They only called the cops to report the accident but they didn’t give their names. Now someone is out for revenge. The older brother of the little boy was bent
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May 02, 2011
Clare
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This was the first selection for my middle-school book club (made up of fellow roller derby book nerds in need of a strong dose of nostalgia). Being a child of the '80s, I'd never read anything by Lois Duncan before. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the kooky '70s word choices, which were changed in the updated version, sadly. (Also in regard to the updated version, we discovered at our book-club meeting that apparently feminism has taken a nosedive in the past four decades. The scene where Barry tel
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Jan 06, 2009
The bestselling novel and blockbuster hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer" centers around four high school students who, after a night of partying, are involved in a hit and run accident that ends up killing a ten-year old boy. The four make a pact never to bring it up again until one of them receives a letter in the mail stating "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER". I have never seen the movie knowingly and from what I gather I'm glad I didn't. Once again Duncan put together
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Apr 18, 2011
Kandee
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- I Know What You Did Last Summer is a great descpitive novel about four friends, illegally smoking pot and driving drunk, who accidentally hit a young kid and make a pact that no one would tell about what happened that fatefull summer.
One day, Julie, one of the friends recieves a letter with the words, "I know what you did last summer" whritten on it. She ignores it at first, but then bad things start happening to the friends over that one deed that happened that summer. More...
One day, Julie, one of the friends recieves a letter with the words, "I know what you did last summer" whritten on it. She ignores it at first, but then bad things start happening to the friends over that one deed that happened that summer. More...
Aug 21, 2010
Sophie
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I remember reading A Gift of Magic by Lois Duncan back in the 70s and loving it. So when I saw this reissue of I Know What You Did Last Summer I couldn't resist picking it up to see how much I would like another of Ms. Duncan's books. And even though I enjoyed it, the book seemed really dated to me. Not just the 1970s time frame of it, but also the language and Ms. Duncan's formal style of writing. The narrative was stilted and overwritten at times, and the characters didn't always seem quite re
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Oct 24, 2011
Marla
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Oct 20, 2011
Terrina
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I gave this book 4 stars because it was kind of boring at the beginning. The middle was a little confusing too. Anyways 4 kids, Barry, Hellen, Julie, and Ray, are driving somewhere and all are a little drunk. A little boy was riding his bike when they hit him with their truck. Scared of the cops finding them, they did a "hit and run". When they find a phone booth they call the ambulance. The next day in the paper when the ambulance came he was conscious, but died on the route to the ho
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Jun 10, 2009
Xiao Yan
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MYsterious and a page turner, this book will definatley keep readers captivated. LAst summer, four teeenagers did something bad but kept it a secret.they did a hit and run and never told anyone. For the whole year, they thought that the past will neer come back agian. However, in the summer they start to get messages that says" i know what you did last summer. NOW the past is back to haunt them. Slowly, the truth is revealed. I think that the teenagers choose a wrong path, they should;ve to
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Jan 07, 2012
Lauren
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As most of you know, I'm a huge fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar so I know the movie by heart. When I found out there was a book... from the 70s, I was a bit skeptical. Teaming that with the fact that it's a Young Adult Novel AND it's been "updated" to include bits about texting and "pissed off"... It wasn't awful but don't waste your time, especially if you've seen the movie. Nothing at all is similar and the characters are pretty much completely changed as well. The story, if y
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Dec 12, 2010
Doug
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Dec 03, 2008
Hannah
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this book was i guess made into a movie that was suppoesedly really good, but ive never seen it. i think the movie was horror, but i didnt find the book all the horrifying. or even really that exciting. i did read it in a hurry so i tmay have had more action in it then i remember, but i still enjoyed reading it. its a book about a group of friends that were more friends by association and popularity than just liking each other. as they were out one night having a good time, not having a care in
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Oct 27, 2010
Valerie
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I think this is definitely a good read for teenagers. It was pretty straight forward, minus the mystery aspect of who was sending the creepy notes and how they knew that the teenagers did a hit-and-run the previous summer. There was an eerie feeling throughout the whole book, even when there were silly things said and sparking romances, because despite all of the good things the teenagers had going for themselves, they still had the miserable guilt of what they had done gnawing at their conscien
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