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The Dark Pond
The author of Skeleton Man returns with another chilling tale.
What kind of sinister creature lurks in the dark pond in the forest? Armie can feel it calling to him . . . and he suspects the answer may lie in the legends of his Shawnee ancestors.
Joseph Bruchac, the award-winning author of Skeleton Man, puts a contemporary spin on Native American lore to create a terrifyin
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Published
July 26th 2005
by HarperTrophy
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this book makes me sleepy it is boring. I am already half through the book so i have to suffer just a little more.Atleast i got through this and finished the dang book.
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Wow, it's been a while since I've read anything by Joseph Bruchac. At my old Environmental Education Center job, I used to reference his Native American Myths & Legends books in various classes I taught, but I've been away from that field for almost 5 years now. I recognized the author's name when my nephew Jared, over dinner the other night, handed me The Dark Pond and told me I'd like it. He was right.
The Dark Pond is a simple enough story, told with just enough attention to detail t...more
The Dark Pond is a simple enough story, told with just enough attention to detail t...more
This book is about a young man named Armie who is part Indian and goes to a private school that elaborates on being one with nature. He feels things other people do not and he has a very special way with animals. He goes to the pond on the schools property and is almost drawn right into the pond by something unseen. After that he keeps feeling something pulling him to the pond. He goes there one night and meets a man that has beeen doing some research and believes that there is a monster that l...more
Dark Pond is mostly about a mystery and trying to solve it. Arime is the main character in this book and most of time his parents are the main characters too. When Armie gets to his brand new school he felt something wrong going on, he thinks there is something wrong, and mysteries with the really dark pond beyond the woods. He hears things calling his name from that direction and he can never figure out what it is he sees things going in the pond, but never coming out, and there are weird ugly ...more
The book The Dark Pond by Joseph Bruchac was about a boy named Armie that thinks he was born specail. Armie thinks he can hear and feel things no one else can. Armie is a native american that does go to school and always gets bullied and is a target for bullying. The book is more of a mystery then a multi-cultural because there is something in the pond near hid house and is scaring his family, throughout the book he if hearing things from the pond and feeling things. When Armie finds out what i...more
Armie is a half Shawnee, half Armenian teen sent to a boarding school in upstate New York, while his parents are away doing humanitarian work. Armie is drawn to a mysterious pool in the woods; he senses something evil its dark waters. Together with a Native American zoology student, Armie discovers the secret of The Dark Pond. Armie must find his place and come to terms with his mixed heritage. Bruchac's tale is a quick suspensful read and will appeal to anyone who likes mystery tales.
This was a calm serene book for me, which doesn't make much sense since it was supposed to be a thriller but i really really enjoyed the Native American way of being one with nature. Armie was just such a break from the rude and mean world that is really out there. He is so put together, and choice with his words. I think I got a really different experience from this book than most people, but I liked it.
warnings: mild thrilling scenes.
warnings: mild thrilling scenes.
The Dark Pond is about this boy named Armie. Armie was always teased in school because of his size and how he looked. His mom was always telling him stories about his Shawnee ancestors. Armie is Native American.
I made a text-to-text connection. I connect this book to Sherman Alexie he was always being teased about how he looked. They both have problems with people. Sherman Alexie couldn't do any activities that good so he was teased. And they both have to stand up for themselv...more
I made a text-to-text connection. I connect this book to Sherman Alexie he was always being teased about how he looked. They both have problems with people. Sherman Alexie couldn't do any activities that good so he was teased. And they both have to stand up for themselv...more
this book was cool i it was very interesting and mysteryious it was a nice ending to like when they children ran into the zombies and and they found out it was only machines
This was a fun read, but not really that scary. I did enjoy the Native American background to the story. A good book to read aloud in a classroom.
A nice native american themed story that ties in myth with a modern horror.
Another Native American story of the creepy kind. I love this type of work.
i loved it. especially armie's character.
It is the most boring horror story ever.
this was kinda of giving me the nightmares
It was supposed to be a horror story, but it seemed a lot more like a survival story. Definately not what I expected.
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Armie, part Shawnee, has grown up listening to old Native American stories. His parents are busy lawyers who send him to a boarding school. Once there, he feels a strange presence in the dark pond in the woods.
Good for younger readers because the scary parts aren't gory or even all that scary.
Good for younger readers because the scary parts aren't gory or even all that scary.
Juvenile Lit. Pretty good book. Some slow parts. This novel is about a teen boy who is half American Indian living at a boarding school in upstate NY. Is there some mysterious creature living in the pond? He feels its pull on him. Interesting things happen.
About a shy big boy who can talk to animals. He finds a dark pond with something in it and makes it his mission to find out what it is.
Similar to skeleton man, but a mythological creature living in a local pond is responsible for disappearances.
It was good... But I thought Joseph Bruchac could of come up with a beter monster. Not just a huge worm
Something ancient and evil is looking for victims in the dark pond in the forest. Takes place in NY State.
A giant WORM is on the rampage. Bleck.
It was a dark book
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Joseph Bruchac lives with his wife, Carol, in the Adirondack mountain foothills town of Greenfield Center, New York, in the same house where his maternal grandparents raised him. Much of his writing draws on that land and his Abenaki ancestry. Although his American Indian heritage is only one part of an ethnic background that includes Slovak and English blood, those Native roots are the ones by wh...more
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