Cathy's Book
by Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart, Cathy Brigg
published
January 31st 2008
(first published 2006)
by Bloomsbury
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Paperback, 160 pages
isbn
0747594740
(isbn13: 9780747594741)
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Read in June, 2008
Lately things haven’t been good for Cathy. Her father died, her boyfriend dumped her, and her grades aren’t so hot. While she can’t do anything about her dad and doesn’t really want to do anything about her grades, she is determined to figure out why her boyfriend dumped her and why in the world she has a needle mark on the inside of her arm when she comes home from his house. From the moment she decides to search out Victor and learn his secrets, she is swept up into a mystery involving...more
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Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.com
CATHY'S BOOK is being marketed as a new kind of young adult novel. It's interactive, with a pocket of 'evidence', real phone numbers and websites, and other extras to help you learn more about the case. To be honest, though, that wasn't what made me love this book. Sure, the extras are cool and all, but I don't think they are necessary (and that's a compliment to the book, really!). CATHY'S BOOK could have stood on its own as a wonderful young a...more
CATHY'S BOOK is being marketed as a new kind of young adult novel. It's interactive, with a pocket of 'evidence', real phone numbers and websites, and other extras to help you learn more about the case. To be honest, though, that wasn't what made me love this book. Sure, the extras are cool and all, but I don't think they are necessary (and that's a compliment to the book, really!). CATHY'S BOOK could have stood on its own as a wonderful young a...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Read in April, 2008
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Read in October, 2006
recommended to Lizzie by:
erm, Borders?recommends it for: girls, probably
This book is great, and I am really surprised that this is the first review that has been left as it has recently become quite popular in the UK. It doesn't read as you might expect a tipical 'urban fantasy' book to read, and, even though fantasy is my genre of choice, i read almost to the end of this book before I realised that it was in fact of the fantasy genre. Cathy is a pretty normal girl living in Seatle (I think! That could be very very wrong!) who has just been dumped by her boyfriend. ...more
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Cathy’s Book: If found call (650) 266-8233
Cathy is an artistic teenager who finds herself falling for Victor, a mysterious older man who seems to be in his early twenties. He lives with his rich uncle who she’s never met. There are photographs from a bygone eras with a man who looks almost exactly like him. She thinks he’s doing biomedical experiments at his job. After something horrible happens to Carla, Victor’s coworker, Cathy tries to figure out his secret. She searches for h...more
Cathy is an artistic teenager who finds herself falling for Victor, a mysterious older man who seems to be in his early twenties. He lives with his rich uncle who she’s never met. There are photographs from a bygone eras with a man who looks almost exactly like him. She thinks he’s doing biomedical experiments at his job. After something horrible happens to Carla, Victor’s coworker, Cathy tries to figure out his secret. She searches for h...more
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Read in October, 2008
This book happens to be a very interesting book for me.
Mainly about this teenage girl who has lost her father, and basically her mother. She's dating this 20 something year old guy who happens to be very mysterious, he dumps her and she just cant take it and starts spying on him and then before she knows it she's about to be killed. She has a bestfriend who warned her bout this guy but she didn't listen. Her bestfriend used to be a rich little girl until her father had some bad things coming t...more
Mainly about this teenage girl who has lost her father, and basically her mother. She's dating this 20 something year old guy who happens to be very mysterious, he dumps her and she just cant take it and starts spying on him and then before she knows it she's about to be killed. She has a bestfriend who warned her bout this guy but she didn't listen. Her bestfriend used to be a rich little girl until her father had some bad things coming t...more
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It's a mystery book that's sort of interactive. The book comes bundled with clues numbers scrawled on a napkin, pages out of a day planner, doodles, business cards... etc. There are also doodles and notes written in the borders of the book itself. All of which can be used to piece together a mystery revolving around a young girl's enegmatic ex-boyfriend.
It's a fairly fun book to read. My favorite part was calling the numbers found in the clues to call a voicemail and break in to get a secr...more
It's a fairly fun book to read. My favorite part was calling the numbers found in the clues to call a voicemail and break in to get a secr...more
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Read in March, 2007
This book is great, not only is the writing exciting and compelling but it is also interactive. You get a wallet full of evidence with phone numbers and other stuff. with the phone numbers you can call them but you can also get hem free on a website www.doubletalkwireless.com/ there is a forum and from there you can grow theories on cathy's whereabouts.
so far I'm not very good at the whole detective thing but I love the idea of ...more
so far I'm not very good at the whole detective thing but I love the idea of ...more
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I was expecting some pretty bad writing for this book, but surprisingly, it was good writing! Cathy was pretty believable as a teen girl (from what I remember from being a teen), she seemed normal enough, and the mystery was pretty good and interesting too, for the first part of the book. Then… the ending… well, in my opinion, it was rather lame. It didn’t really fit in with the rest of the book, and I was trying to pretend it didn’t happen. The first half of the book was really good tho...more
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My teens have been bothering me to read this book forver and I finally brought it home for the weekend. It's much shorter than it seems and much more intriguing. It's written in a diary format, which often seems gimmicky but this diary is full of action and dialogue. Cathy has an incredibly snarky voice that would be obnoxious in a best friend but is absolutely hilarious and perfect in the book. Plus, it's a realistic ficiton type book that turns out not to be entirely realistic. I won't sa...more
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
someone who's looking for a book where they have to do a little thinking
This is one of my favorite books. It is about a girl named Cathy who goes on a hunt to find out more about her ex-boyfriend after she finds a mysterious mark on her arm. What really caught my eye in this book is all the clues you can search and all the artwork. It really makes it seem like a real girl's journal, with all the doodles and personal feelings. I suggest reading this book if you like a bit of mystery. Or maybe you just want to check out all the doodles and read for fun. Either way, it...more
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Read in January, 2008
I wanted to read this because I featured it in a book talk that was about teen books that were written in diary/journal format. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be...the description of the book didn't give any information about what the plot was actually about. So I guess I kind of felt tricked or mislead...and then the ending was completely random. I did like the format, though, especially because it included "real" letters, photographs, and other mementos to go along with the
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Read in July, 2008
recommends it for:
those who enjoy YA books, those who might like a bit of mystery mixed with a bit of sci-fi
I loved this book! I like the look of it (doodles, handwritten notes in the margins, etc) as well as all the neat ephemera tucked inside the cover. I like the idea of an interactive book and the authors did a great job pulling it off! I didn't expect Victor's secret to be what it was and some of the details were a bit confusing. The book ends with some unanswered questions, leaving me wanting more. Fortunately there's a sequel: Cathy's Key.
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I know.. weird.. this book is fantasy?? Well, it is. One would not think so at first but once you get into the story you realize that indeed, it is. Anyways, it's good, a bit of language, but it's funny and witty. And it's just so cool how there are all the papers and stuff in the envelope on the inside cover! And the phone numbers and websites work!! The fact that the number on the cover worked is what actually made me want the book!!
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Read in April, 2008
I picked this up at the Mass Library Association 2007 Conference, after hearing the author speak about it. It's an interesting story, and I think if you actually did what you were supposed to -- call the phone numbers in the book, visit the websites & explore them, really examine the ephemera included -- it'd be super fun. But I just wasn't motivated to do that alone.
If anyone wants to borrow this let me know, it's kind of neat.
If anyone wants to borrow this let me know, it's kind of neat.
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I purchased this book from off of a discount table and intended to gut it and "repurpose" it. I decided to read it and it turned out to be a pretty fun book. Formatted as a journal with a pocket full of fun ephemra, this book is intiguing, a little dramatic and mysterious, and entertaining. It is nicely written, with good character development and a tidy conclusion.
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Read in August, 2008
A very interesting blend of writing and real-life interaction. The story includes phone numbers and websites for various characters or places/information they discover, and when you call the numbers or visit the sites, there is actually information there. Brings new meaning to the phrase "mixed media" and fresh potential to the experience of reading.
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ok, the storyline was "good" but I just LOVED this little book beacuse of the format. It's written as a teenager's diary and has all of this info relating to things mentioned in the story in a little pouch at the front. So cool. Neat Idea. Great teen book, but I found it fun as a adult too!
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Read in March, 2007
I loved this, once I'd gotten past the first bit, where it's all a little awkward. It's the first book I've read in a while that I've actually EATEN UP, so to speak! I couldn't see where it was going, I'm still a bit confused about some parts, AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO A SEQUEL. :D
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