I Know What You Did Last Summer

by Lois Duncan
I Know What You Did Last Summer
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April 6th 1999 (first published 1973) by Laurel Leaf

binding
Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages

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0440228441    (isbn13: 9780440228448)

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It was only an accident -- but it would change their lives forever. Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking se...more




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Karschtl
09/03/07
Karschtl rated it: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: children_teenie, darkish, movie
Read in January, 2005
Four kids drive home after a high-school-party, everyone - including the driver - a bit intoxicated and tipsy. Then happens what always happens in such situations: an accident on a dark road. They knocked over a young boy, riding with his bicycle. For fear of the police they don't administer first aid but instead do a hit-and-run.

One year later - they've almost forgotten the incident, they're reminded of it via mysterious letters. Someone outside of their circle seems to know their d...more
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Uriel
05/11/09
Uriel rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in April, 2009
I Know What You Did Last Summer

This book is about 4 teenagers, Helen Rivers and her boyfriend Barry William, Julie James and her boyfriend Ray, who win a weekend trip because Helen had won the beauty pageant. They go party to a beach and when they are heading back home, something happened. Barry was drunk and dropped his liquor and distracted Ray, which caused him to hit a fishermen. Instead of calling the police and ambulance, they decided to keep it a secret because they thought it...more
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Mike
04/21/09
Mike rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Lois Duncan’s I Know What You Did Last Summer was a nonstop thrill ride. From the first chapter to the last, I was captivated by the chilling story involving a group of teens who accidentally killed a boy.

This book was about four teens that were partying one night and hit a young boy. They were drinking and decided to keep the whole incident a secret, until they begin to get threatening messages form an anonymous person. They went their separate ways after the accident, but now the...more
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Sherrel Fox
01/06/09
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Read in January, 2009
recommends it for: everyone
The bestselling novel and blockbuster hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer" centers around four high school students who, after a night of partying, are involved in a hit and run accident that ends up killing a ten-year old boy. The four make a pact never to bring it up again until one of them receives a letter in the mail stating "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER". I have never seen the movie knowingly and from what I gather I'm glad I didn't. Once again Duncan put together ...more
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Xiao Yan
06/10/09
Xiao Yan rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: school-year-08
MYsterious and a page turner, this book will definatley keep readers captivated. LAst summer, four teeenagers did something bad but kept it a secret.they did a hit and run and never told anyone. For the whole year, they thought that the past will neer come back agian. However, in the summer they start to get messages that says" i know what you did last summer. NOW the past is back to haunt them. Slowly, the truth is revealed. I think that the teenagers choose a wrong path, they should;ve to...more
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Hannah
12/02/08
Hannah rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in September, 2008
recommends it for: anyone
this book was i guess made into a movie that was suppoesedly really good, but ive never seen it. i think the movie was horror, but i didnt find the book all the horrifying. or even really that exciting. i did read it in a hurry so i tmay have had more action in it then i remember, but i still enjoyed reading it. its a book about a group of friends that were more friends by association and popularity than just liking each other. as they were out one night having a good time, not having a care in ...more
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Ally
07/04/08
Ally rated it: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: own-it-
Great horror book for anyone who loves mysteries and horror combined!
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Courtney
04/12/08
Courtney rated it: 3 of 5 stars

This wasn't my favorite book, yet it was a good one.
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Tracy
08/27/08
Tracy rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in July, 1996
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Relyn
06/23/08
Relyn rated it: 3 of 5 stars

Read in June, 2008
recommends it for: a young teenager or somebody who feels like one some days
I am moving along in my vintage summer project. I was reading The Longstockings blog a while back and one of Lois Duncan's books was mentioned. I remembered passionately loving Locked In Time when I was a very young teenager and enjoying a few other books. I decided that this summer, in the middle of my other reading, I would read all of Lois Duncan's books; for fun and for memories of being a teenager.

Anyway, this one was better than most of hers. I have noticed that many, many ...more
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Tiffanyy
05/04/08
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bookshelves: books-o7-o8
A great mystery, heart-stopping and a big page-turner. This book was a great pleasure to read, once i cracked open the cover, the book stayed glued into my hands until the last page of the book.
This book is about these four teenagers that have done a horrible act; they hit a little boy while they were driving by accident and instead of taking responsibility and notifying the police, they decided to leave this horrifying moment into the grave and forget this ever happen. That was going smoot...more
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♥{Miranda!®}♥
04/04/08
♥{Miranda!®}♥ rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in April, 2008
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(C) Archer at KIPP
02/11/08
(C) Archer at KIPP rated it: 5 of 5 stars

bookshelves: girls-have-read
Read in January, 2008
recommended to (C) Archer by: Nancy Limon
You are driving.Your friends in the back sit are fooling around.A joint was passed earlier.It's a dark, moonless night.Then you hit something.No, it's not something it was someone.What would you do, stop the car or run away.In I Know What You Did Last Summer two teenage boys and two girls decide to take the easy way, run away, after hiting a 10 year kid.They decided to keep it a secret, but somehow it got out.They start receiving newspaper clippings, notes and other things connected to that dre...more
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Mark Plaugher
bookshelves: power-player
Read in January, 2008
recommends it for: Middle School Students
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Taneysha forsyth
04/10/09
Taneysha forsyth rated it: 5 of 5 stars

I LOVE THIS BOOK." THIS BOOK IS ABOUT KIDS WHO SECERTS WERE TOLD BUT WAS BURIED ALIVE BUT WOULDN'T DIE.THEY MESSED WITH SOMETHING AND THIS KILLER COMES AFTER AND HE TRIES TO KILL THEM.YOU CAN GET THE MOVIE WHICH REALLY TELLS YOU ABOUT WHAT THEY DID WRONG.I WOULD WANT TO BE IN THE CHARACTERS SHOES TO SEE HOW IT FEEL TO BE IN A KILLER SITUTION.YOU CAN GET HTIS BOOK IN MS.WOODARD LIBARY IN NEW BOOKS.
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Lucas Wilson
03/13/09
Lucas Wilson rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in November, 2008
recommends it for: Teens
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Lesley
01/13/09
Lesley rated it: 3 of 5 stars

MUCH better than the cheesy teens-in-peril movie based on it. There is nothing supernatural going on here,the horror is all psychological as 4 wholesome, all American teens cope with their guilt over a hit and run death. Yes,someone knows what happened and is intent on revenge, but the real consequences come from their attempt to repress what happened. A masterful story.
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B o M b
06/02/08
B o M b rated it: 2 of 5 stars

Read in July, 2008
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Mayve
04/13/08
Mayve rated it: 4 of 5 stars

Read in January, 1986
I read this book in Jr High and had a hunch it was made into a movie when I saw the previews. I thought the book was great. It was the first of many books of this genre (and of Lois Duncan's) that I started reading while everyone else stuck to Sweet Valley High and Sweet Dreams books. When the movie did come out, I watched scratching my head and thinking that I don't remember mos tof it in the book.
Obvious details aside, I also thought the book - from what I remember - seemed more of a s...more
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Tiah Keever
04/30/09
Tiah Keever rated it: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: from-my-youth
I read this probably in middle school, I read a lot of mediocre horror/mystery fiction like this in my youth. At the time I liked them quite a bit, now it is sort of embarrassing, but I'll tell you what-i have some pretty good deducing skills now...
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