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Step on a Crack
by
Mary Anderson,
Xe Sands (Goodreads Author)
For as long as she could remember, Sarah has had a frightening nightmare. In it, she inexplicably kills her mother. After this nightmare she feels compelled to steal something. Not just anything, but some particular item which seems significant. Yet over the years she couldn’t figure out the relevance of any of these stolen items. No one knows of Sarah’s problem and she ha...more
Audiobook, Unabridged
Published
July 27th 2011
by Iambik Audio
(first published January 1st 1978)
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I listened to the audiobook narrated by Xe Sands and BECAUSE of Xe Sands. After tweeting back and forth with her for a while, I was curious to listen to a full book carried by her exceptional voice.
The story itself is interesting: A teenage girl troubled by a recurring, frightening nightmare which she tries to figure out with a smart, over-ambitious classmate instead of seeking professional help. The book is a warning of amateur psychology, and I also see it as encouragement for troubled youths...more
The story itself is interesting: A teenage girl troubled by a recurring, frightening nightmare which she tries to figure out with a smart, over-ambitious classmate instead of seeking professional help. The book is a warning of amateur psychology, and I also see it as encouragement for troubled youths...more
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What an amazing audiobook! Step on a Crack by Mary Anderson was originally published in 1978 by Atheneum Books and is making a comeback after the recent audio production by Iambik Audio.
This novel opens the flood gates into the mind of a teenage girl with a dark past. Sarah lives a wonderful life with her parents and only has two secrets. She has horrible nightmares about murdering her mother and after the nightmares, she steals. Nothing important, nothing fancy. The items Sarah “has” to steal t...more
This novel opens the flood gates into the mind of a teenage girl with a dark past. Sarah lives a wonderful life with her parents and only has two secrets. She has horrible nightmares about murdering her mother and after the nightmares, she steals. Nothing important, nothing fancy. The items Sarah “has” to steal t...more
This one grabbed me from the first sentence, “Does a person know when they are going crazy?” Sarah thinks that because she keeps having nightmares about killing her mother but her nightmares have elements of Alice in Wonderland to them, every time she has these nightmares she shoplifts something the next day and now she is also sleepwalking. The dreams themselves were interesting to me of how your subconscious uses something familiar like the Alice in Wonderland story to try to help you deal wit...more
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The first time I read this was in 1985 or 86, and it stuck with me so much that I had to hunt it down and reread it. I've done this with a few books, and while I still thought the story was wonderfully laid out, knowing exactly where it was going took a lot out of it. However, the fact that after 25 years I vividly remembered exactly where it was going, almost every twist and turn, from having read it when I was in 6th grade has to be some sort of a testament to just how much the book took hold....more
There's this thing called the Internet now, and I looked up the fenced-in grave. The Amiable Child Monument does exist (http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park...).
I read this back when I was in elementary school. Then a couple weeks ago someone on "what was that book" jogged my memory and I decided I wanted to read it again. Fairly interesting, a little dated. I guess it's interesting and scary to a kid, but to me as a grownup it was just OK.
I just remembered this book which I read many years ago and I loved it. I actually would read it again. I forget when I exactly read it but I think I was in high school or shortly thereafter.
While the big secret was predictable, this was an enjoyable mystery about the girl's past and the details were pretty interesting.
Dec 15, 2012
Andria
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5 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
teen-fiction,
retro-reads
Dec 15, 2012
Shelly
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Shelves:
audiobooks,
fiction-young-adult
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Born in 1939, Mary Anderson is an American author of mystery novels for children and young adults.
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