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Slumber Party
It was the perfect weekend...for murder.
Lara thought the ski trip should be a blast. The old gang was getting together again for the first time in years. What could be better than six single girls out for sun and ski and apres ski -- plus a huge house and a warm fire? Even with the memory of what had happened the last time, it looked like the perfect weekend. Until things...more
Lara thought the ski trip should be a blast. The old gang was getting together again for the first time in years. What could be better than six single girls out for sun and ski and apres ski -- plus a huge house and a warm fire? Even with the memory of what had happened the last time, it looked like the perfect weekend. Until things...more
Mass Market Paperback, 170 pages
Published
September 26th 1985
by Scholastic Point
(first published 1985)
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Mar 14, 2009
Jessica (j*&p*)
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2009-books,
rereads
This is a cut & paste from my Nest post yesterday:
I picked this book up yesterday and I can only describe it as awesomely bad.
I've reread several of my favorite old Christopher Pike books over the last year and most of them were still entertaining and suspenseful, but this one, not so much.
If you don't remember the plot, basically Lara and her other high school friends head up to a friend's cabin for a ski weekend/ slumber party combo. The cast of characters includes Dana, the buttaface wit...more
I picked this book up yesterday and I can only describe it as awesomely bad.
I've reread several of my favorite old Christopher Pike books over the last year and most of them were still entertaining and suspenseful, but this one, not so much.
If you don't remember the plot, basically Lara and her other high school friends head up to a friend's cabin for a ski weekend/ slumber party combo. The cast of characters includes Dana, the buttaface wit...more
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i read Slumber Party as an IR book.this book was basically about a vacation for teenagers. Lara wanted to get the old gang back together on a ski trip. but that didn't go as planned. murder was actually going to happen, but none of them knew. All these things start happening, Lara missing, another burned. Was there a murderer among them?
i have an text-to-text connection. i can connect this to the book The Weekend. Both decided to get there group of friends together. they all thought it would a...more
i have an text-to-text connection. i can connect this to the book The Weekend. Both decided to get there group of friends together. they all thought it would a...more
Apr 25, 2010
Kaitlyn M.
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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grade-8-ir-books-betts,
favorites
this book is about 6 friends who went on vactation. they all had a secret. soon werid things start to happen. 1 girl is missing, another one was burned. no one knows how these things are happned or who is doing this. they soon start to question who is doing this. is one of the friends a muderer? read to find out.
i can connect this book to secret aadmiere. in both books one of the friends is trying to kill there friend. they also have the same movitive. there jeaoulse of how pretyer there friend...more
i can connect this book to secret aadmiere. in both books one of the friends is trying to kill there friend. they also have the same movitive. there jeaoulse of how pretyer there friend...more
I loved this scary realistic fiction story. It's about a girl named Lara who decides to go to a ski resort with all of her friends. Strange things start to happen such as the girls' snowman mysteriously melting even though it was below -1 degrees Fahrenheit and the snowman was in the shade. Patches of snow are randomly melting like this and Lara thinks that she could catch fire at any second. She believes that one of the girls are purposely setting fire to the snow to freak Lara out. But its muc...more
Not one of Pike's best books, but there is a nostalgia factor for me on this one, so I'll give it a pass. A group of girls gather together at an isolated ski cabin eight years after a slumber party game went wrong and left one of them severely burned and another dead. Things keep mysteriously catching on fire, and then Dana disappears completely. Could revenge be in the air? You would have to be pretty stupid not to figure out the heavy heavy foreshadowing in this one, and Pike can somehow make...more
Slumber Party was the very first Pike book I ever read. It was so good that I immediately had to hunt down his other books. In retrospect, I'm betting my mother probably regrets picking this one out for me.
Despite being more than 20 years old, the book holds up well with some stilted dialog being the only thing that bugs me. I'm still a sucker for the backstory and the way it colors Lara's perceptions of her friends and their ill fated ski trip.
Plus, I've never quite managed to get the mental i...more
Despite being more than 20 years old, the book holds up well with some stilted dialog being the only thing that bugs me. I'm still a sucker for the backstory and the way it colors Lara's perceptions of her friends and their ill fated ski trip.
Plus, I've never quite managed to get the mental i...more
Just as good the second time.
I love reading a book I read in high school over again. I especially love reading Christopher Pike and what's really cool is that it seems this book (unlike the Final Friends series) has stood the test of time.
I remembered Slumber Party as soon as I started reading it. I remembered the hot older boy skiers, the jealous friend, the melted clues, the culprit and this rather steamy, for an 11 year-old (I'll talk about it more during one of my 30 day challenges coming up...more
I love reading a book I read in high school over again. I especially love reading Christopher Pike and what's really cool is that it seems this book (unlike the Final Friends series) has stood the test of time.
I remembered Slumber Party as soon as I started reading it. I remembered the hot older boy skiers, the jealous friend, the melted clues, the culprit and this rather steamy, for an 11 year-old (I'll talk about it more during one of my 30 day challenges coming up...more
Six teenage girls in a luxurious winter vacation home experience a series of bizarre and violent incidents during a blizzard that makes communication and travel difficult. Old secrets weigh heavily on the group. Lara has explained to newcomer Celeste that Nell's facial scars were caused by a tragic fire during the group's last slumber party, but she is unable to talk about the death that also occurred. What it all leads back to is a fiery slumber party eight years ago when one of them was disfig...more
Jan 03, 2008
Kelly
rated it
1 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
I wouldn't, honestly.
Shelves:
cpike-book-club
OK. I read this book many many years ago, back when I was devouring books like these at a rate of three or so a week. By the second page, the experience came back to me all at once, I remembered the twist ending, and most of the details. I don;t remember liking this one back then, and I certainly don;t love it now, but it's got serious nostalgia factor.
Some of the characters in this book are so thin that you keep forgetting what the hell they've been up to. Mindy? You unnecessary fringe characte...more
Some of the characters in this book are so thin that you keep forgetting what the hell they've been up to. Mindy? You unnecessary fringe characte...more
Finally! A young-adult horror book from the '80s in which something actually happens! True, most of the dialogue in this book was painfully stilted, the love story was beyond cheesy, and the surprise twist ending was pretty obvious from about the second chapter (although I do admit that the red herrings did give me fleeting feelings of doubt). But the denouement was super-dramatic, and made for a GREAT reenactment at book club. What more could you want?
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It's been about 20 years since I've read this, but a Christopher Pike novel was more important than the air I breathed when I was a teenager. Rereading before it ends up either in the bin or a second-hand bookstore. :(
UPDATE: I've just spent the past two hours rereading this and have revised my 5-star rating to one star. Sometimes these things are better off living on solely in one's memory. Sheesh! What a god-awful book...
UPDATE: I've just spent the past two hours rereading this and have revised my 5-star rating to one star. Sometimes these things are better off living on solely in one's memory. Sheesh! What a god-awful book...
This book is about a girl name Lara who recently went on a ski trip with a bunch of her high school freaky friends. As they was having a great time, one day, Lara just came up missing. No one knew what happened to her, she was missing. But many of her high school friends didn't really care, they just kept on enjoing there ski trip. So no one knew where she was so the police was called but haven't shown up for about a day later. SO by that time, Lara could be killed if she haven't even been kille...more
I was obsessed with this book's font. It was wonderfully 80s-y and round. They don't do fonts like that anymore. Now everything is crisp and angled. *Sigh*
That's about all I remember from this one, except for the useful tip that when you need to shoot off a flare gun but your hands are stiff from cold, peeing on them works. ***The more you know***
That's about all I remember from this one, except for the useful tip that when you need to shoot off a flare gun but your hands are stiff from cold, peeing on them works. ***The more you know***
I read Slumber Party several years ago. I won't go further into detail; don't remember a lot of it. But the main plot - 6 teenage girls travel to California for a weekend ski trip. When they arrive, strange things start happening. To top it off, a blizzard prevents them from traveling further. This story is filled with suspense and a lot of mystery.
This books was somewhat predictable. I had a few of the final revaltions figured out by about halfway through. Despite having a couple of them figured out, a couple of them also suprised me. It was a quick and easy read which obviously had my attention because I read an hour later than I planned last night to finish the book.
Sep 17, 2012
Kelly-anne.♥.
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
YA horror fanatics
Shelves:
borrowed-library
This book was a light read, which I love, because there's nothing like sitting down with a book you can read in one sit. Wasn't the best YA horror I've read, and the storyline was a little predictable, but still enjoyable! I've heard Pikes other novels are better so I'm excited to read another.
bellissimo racconto in cui quattro amiche si ritrovano e decidono di andare in montagna a sciare insieme..peccato che vecchi rancori e scheletri nell'armadio porteranno le ragazze a un epilogo pericoloso..Pike come sempre scrive i migliori thriller per ragazzi!
Aug 26, 2011
Meaghan R. (YA-aholic)
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2011-reading-challenge
i read to die for, which had this and another story in it.
it was alright. Not my favourite Pike book.
I think i was expecting more. more disappearances, more deaths, and just a little more horror.
don;t get me wrong, it was still a good book.
it was alright. Not my favourite Pike book.
I think i was expecting more. more disappearances, more deaths, and just a little more horror.
don;t get me wrong, it was still a good book.
Quick Review
Plot: 13/20
Characters: 13/20
Writing: 12/20
The grammar is horrible in some places.
Originality and Creativity: 13/20
Ending and Beginning: 5/10
Other Story Elements: 6/10
Total 62/100
= 2 out of 5 stars
Plot: 13/20
Characters: 13/20
Writing: 12/20
The grammar is horrible in some places.
Originality and Creativity: 13/20
Ending and Beginning: 5/10
Other Story Elements: 6/10
Total 62/100
= 2 out of 5 stars
I expected nothing less from the master of horror! :D!!! I stopped reading last night at about 12:00 AM for the sake of 2 things. I got less than 5 hours of sleep the night before, and I actually wanted sleep. I loved this book. It was short, fun, scary and horror filled. I always wondered how to write horror. How? Pike makes it look easy. I liked the way you got to know the characters, and see what happened between them. The way Pike write, it makes you feel as if you are actually with Lara, Da...more
I did like this book because the girls in the book is going to a party that one of the girl were thoughing. Then trhe find out one girl is a srpit and they do not want to next to her
Keep in mind this is Pikes first published book. I enjoy anything written by him. If I would have read this as a young teen I would have loved it more. Quick and easy read.
I read this in the early 1990's as a kid, but I couldn't recall the story. Reading it now, it's no wonder why I couldn't; I probably blocked it out. It gave me an ache in my eye.
Scary and mysterious. I couldn't stop reading this book and when I finished it, I was like "wow." I thought this was an excellent book. I loved it.
Looking back through the Christopher Pike books at the books I used to read when I was young. This one particularly stuck in my mind.
This was a reread of my most favorite Christopher Pike book from back in the day! I routinely give 5 stars to all the books I adored from my younger years, and this one is no exception. I seem to remember that a lot of Christopher Pike books were a little too supernatural for my taste, and I was actually a bigger fan of RL Stine in middle/high school. There was nothing off-the-wall weird in Slumber Party, though, and I really loved the snowy ski-resort setting. Regardless of whether it is actual...more
One of my favorite authors. Some stuff is brilliant, some is just bizarre. One of his better non series works.
Read for a couple of 5th grade girls and 1 HS librarian :) Seems the author writes similar plots.....hmmmmm
I liked this book it was really weird and creepy at some points, but over all it was great!!!
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Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin McFadden. He is a bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction who specializes in the thriller genre.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programm...more
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programm...more
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