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Nightmare
Emily has never fit in her overachieving family. Instead of getting straight As, she sits in the back row and hides behind her hair. As a result, her parents have enrolled her at Camp Excel—an academic camp for underachievers—for the summer. Emily doesn’t want to go, and not just because she feels it isn’t necessary. She’s been plagued by a recurring nightmare since she wa...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
August 9th 2005
by Yearling
(first published September 9th 2003)
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Nightmare by Joan Lowery Nixon is a great book about a girl with a reoccurring nightmare. Emily has had a reoccurring nightmare she’s been having since was about seven years old. Now her parent’s area sending her to a learning educational camp to help Emily realize she’s able o get grades and that she can succeed. But ever since she’s entered the camp the nightmare has been occurring more than ever! She’s having bad feelings about this camp, and now she starting to put together the reason the d...more
Lisa Campbell
Mystery
For eight years, Emily Wood has been haunted by a nightmare. It is always the same, through the thick vines she sees a body lying lifeless on the ground. As she turns to run she hears a voice call, “Little girl, come back! I’ll find you!” Now at sixteen, she tries her best to never draw attention to herself. She doesn’t know why she is so afraid all the time. In desperation, her parents send her to a special summer camp for underachievers. For some reason even the name of the...more
Mystery
For eight years, Emily Wood has been haunted by a nightmare. It is always the same, through the thick vines she sees a body lying lifeless on the ground. As she turns to run she hears a voice call, “Little girl, come back! I’ll find you!” Now at sixteen, she tries her best to never draw attention to herself. She doesn’t know why she is so afraid all the time. In desperation, her parents send her to a special summer camp for underachievers. For some reason even the name of the...more
GENRE: Fiction: Mystery.
SUBJECT/THEMES: Nightmares, repressed memories, traumatic incidents, underachievers.
SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Emily comes from a family of overachieving, hyper-successful parents and siblings. So when she returns home with less than straight-As, her parents decide that she is not working at her proper level and take her to Camp Excel for underachievers, where she’ll stay for many weeks over the summer. Emily isn’t happy about this, but she has something greater on her min...more
SUBJECT/THEMES: Nightmares, repressed memories, traumatic incidents, underachievers.
SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Emily comes from a family of overachieving, hyper-successful parents and siblings. So when she returns home with less than straight-As, her parents decide that she is not working at her proper level and take her to Camp Excel for underachievers, where she’ll stay for many weeks over the summer. Emily isn’t happy about this, but she has something greater on her min...more
The book is decent. The readers are introduced to Emily, a troubled teen who wants to fade into the background. She is branded as the apathetic, under-achiever. What her parents, peers, and teachers don't know is that Emily is haunted with recurring nightmares. Her horrifying dreams involve running in darkness, being surrounded by woods and shrubbery, and discovering a lifeless woman's body. Traumatized by the images that constantly bombard her, Emily becomes introverted. As a coping mechanism,...more
Joan Lowery Nixon is able to enthrall the reader in a mystery story. The book itself has a great plot, great character development, and a great twist at the end, yet there was one major problem. This is that Nightmare is almost identical to another one of her books, The Other Side Of Dark, which is the only other book of hers that i have read. The plots both consist of a main character trying to remember a murderer, both the main characters are teenage girls with some sort of social problem (one...more
i just the book nightmare it was ok this book is by joan nixon it takes place at a camp to help kids strugling with there grades the main charactor is emily wood she is not veary talk a tive and is a little diturbed this book has a great plot but needs to explain more on the main idea of her nightmare in this nightmare there is a reacoring body that emily is somehow conected to when she is sent to the camp the nightmare becomes more real to her and the reader this book is veay intence but could...more
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I thought this was a OK book. This book is about a girl that keeps having nightmares about a dead women. Then there is a flash of light and the dreams over but she does'nt know where it came from.Then when she turns 16 her parents make her go to camp exelwhich is a camp for under-achivers.when she gets there she finds a photograph and relizes it's the dead face of the women that is in her dream. Then she starts wondering if she came to this camp 8 years ago did she know the dead women once and w...more
This book was very well done. Many of the main characters were very real and well-rounded. The writing itself was simple and easy and the description of each characters appearance was introduced nicely, with the exception of the teachers, which I felt was a little rushed, especially with all the names.
The main character, Emily, was a good character and I could easily see as a real person, and the same goes for Haley, Taylor, and Maxwell. They were all portrayed nicely, but I wish Emily's three f...more
The main character, Emily, was a good character and I could easily see as a real person, and the same goes for Haley, Taylor, and Maxwell. They were all portrayed nicely, but I wish Emily's three f...more
Nightmare
by~ Joan Lowry Nixon
Randon House Children’s Books
Originally released on September 9, 2003. rereleased August 9, 2005.
Nightmare Is a really great Young Adult Novel. The protagonist in this novel is Emily Wood, an underachiever at school who just wishes she could blend in and disappear. That’s pretty difficult, though, due to her odd hair color, a bleach blonde. She usually veils her face with her hair to just hide. Emily has been having the same nightmare for the past eight years. She g...more
by~ Joan Lowry Nixon
Randon House Children’s Books
Originally released on September 9, 2003. rereleased August 9, 2005.
Nightmare Is a really great Young Adult Novel. The protagonist in this novel is Emily Wood, an underachiever at school who just wishes she could blend in and disappear. That’s pretty difficult, though, due to her odd hair color, a bleach blonde. She usually veils her face with her hair to just hide. Emily has been having the same nightmare for the past eight years. She g...more
The book Nightmare is a book by Joan lowary Nixon it is 6 AR points. I honestly think that this book is a great book. i mean it is kind of confusing in the beginning but as you read more of it, it all started to come to you. nightmare is a book that i think everyone should read if they like scary camp stories an one's that have to deal with witches in some sort of way. i think this book was made for anyone to be honest because anyone could read it an love it. its a mystery suspense book.
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For many years Emily has had the same nightmare, and now the nightmare is coming more often. Because she isn't achieving in school, her parents send her to a summer camp run by a renowned psychologist. Just the name of the camp strikes fear in her heart. Her roommate, Hayley, is into magic stones, and when Emily draws a stone, it says she is in great danger. I thought I knew the murderer at the first of the book, but Nixon keeps throwing in twists and turns so that I was never sure.
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This book could hardly be qualified scary enough to be told around a campfire. Not to mention the story took place in under a week. All her memories suddenly come back to her and I was not satisfied with how the murder was portrayed. The author also managed to expose the killer and explain their reason for murder within the last ten pages of the book. I understand that some books can be short and leave a chill up your spine, but this book barely managed to startle me.
Emily has been haunted by the same nightmare since she was a child, and it has prevented her from operating as a normal teenager in a way her overachieving parents and sisters do not understand. However, when her parents send her to a sort of summer camp for underachievers, against her will, they do not realize they are putting Emily into danger because the cause of her nightmare is very real and does not want Emily to remember what really happened. . .
Not one of Nixon's best.
Not one of Nixon's best.
I got this book on Tuesday, and I am finished with it. This is what you call a page turner. In this book, Emily has suppressed a memory from her childhood, but remembers parts of it in a recurring nightmare. She finds herself reliving ‘familiar’ experiences, and soon comes to find out that she must solve a murder that she witnessed a long time ago while the murderer is trying to “keep her shut”.
I've always quite enjoyed Loan Lowery Nixon's young adult mysteries. They are realistic and suspenseful. Nightmare is about a young girl who has always been shy and quiet, contrasting glaringly with her super-achiever older sisters. So her parents (her mother the lawyer and her father the doctor) send her to a new, special summer camp designed to help underachievers reach their potential. What Emily doesn't tell her parents is that she has been having nightmares for years about pushing through a...more
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Nightmare, by Joan Lowery Nixon was a great book. This book was written for anyone who likes murder mystery or just plain murders. It’s worth 6 AR points
In Nightmare this girl is having a nightmare over and over again. She can not figure out why she keeps having this dream. She is sent to a summer camp that is for kids who are as some people say underachievers. Whiles she there she realizes she’s been to this camp before and she knows a secret of some there she has to figure out who it is befor...more
In Nightmare this girl is having a nightmare over and over again. She can not figure out why she keeps having this dream. She is sent to a summer camp that is for kids who are as some people say underachievers. Whiles she there she realizes she’s been to this camp before and she knows a secret of some there she has to figure out who it is befor...more
Nov 17, 2009
Kaitlyn
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She's always been so alone, and the novel was filled with the characters fear and her reluctance to embrace what it is that she fears the most liek most teens would. At least, I know I would. Suspenceful and wonderful.
New-ish book by one of my favorite authors from middle school. This one disappointed me a bit, as you can probably tell by the rating. Kind of shallow characterization, with a central mystery that didn't grab me.
I LOVE Joan Lowery Nixon books. The books are so well written the keep you on the edge of your chair until the very last page. It is almost impossible to stop reading Joan Lowery Nixon books. :)
This book was very good. Nixon has a way of keeping you on your toes and making you want to continue reading. The only downfall was that it ended to quickly and abruptly.
My favorite author! I realize it was written for teens, but I never have to deal with the crap that is sometimes in adult novels.
It was my first Joan Lowery Nixon book and, to put it swiftly, it started a 'mystery-binge' for me.
Not very good. Oh well. Although I did take forever to read this tiny book. I liked how it ended but other than that it's not very good. I mean the whole concept of the book is pretty good but they way Nixon wrote it left a lot to be desired. But as you should know this is only my opinion.
It was intersting, but i dont really like the freaky and scary books very much.
The book was interesting actually. Just the first few chapters were boring.
It kept me guessing to almost the last page. Truly a mystery!!
Good. I remember legitimate fear when I was younger :)
I didn't think the ending was great. Other than that, the book was good.
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Author of more than one hundred books, Joan Lowery Nixon is the only writer to have won four Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Juvenile Mysteries (and been nominated several other times) from the Mystery Writers of America. Creating contemporary teenage characters who have both a personal problem and a mystery to solve, Nixon captured the attention of legions of teenage readers since the publication of h...more
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“Any other mislabeled underachievers around here? Speak up now or suffer the consquences," he said.
Emily blinked. "other mislabeled underachievers?"
That's correct," Maxwell said. "I, for one, have definitely been mislabeled. I am not an underachiever. I simply refuse to waste my time on subjects which will be of no use to me in my future, such as math and science.”
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Emily blinked. "other mislabeled underachievers?"
That's correct," Maxwell said. "I, for one, have definitely been mislabeled. I am not an underachiever. I simply refuse to waste my time on subjects which will be of no use to me in my future, such as math and science.”
