I Know What You Did Last Summer

by Lois Duncan

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April 6th 1999 (first published 1973) by Laurel Leaf

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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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09/03/07

Karschtl rated it:

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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05/11/09

Uriel rated it:

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 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 would ruin there life in college. So they all hid him somewhere and left. A year later, Julie returns to college and is being haunted by images of the fishermen going after her, which is why she has been doing poorly at school. Then, she gets mail in her mother’s home saying, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”. Julie freaked out and called Helen. They both went to go talk to Barry, since he fills no guilt from the incident. Barry suspects that Max send the letter, but then found out that Max has been killed by a man wielding a hook, where they also ran over Barry. Julie and Ray go visit him, where Helen was also there waiting for them. They do a quick research about the incident and find out that a guy named David Egan had murdered his girlfriend accidentally in the same place where Ray ran over the fishermen.
The next day, it is Helen’s contest of the beauty pageant, excited, but mostly frightened that the fishermen might come and attack her. Barry tells her he is going to be there for her to protect her, but during the contest, Barry is attacked from the back and he gets murdered. She then escapes to her sister’s store Elsa, thinking she might be safe there, but the fishermen was there and kills Elsa. Helen then goes out downstairs and she see’s the fishermen. He grabbed her and killed her too. Then Julie begins to run and tries to jump off the boat but they are too far away from the dock. She flees down inside the boat and locks the door. Ben starts trying to open the door so she runs into the fish storage room, filled with ice cubes. She finds the corpses of Barry and Helen in the ice and screams in horror. Ray comes aboard and saves Julie from Ben. The chase ends with Ben getting his hand chopped off by the pulley, and then thrown overboard. Another year later, Julie is back to college, where the fishermen’s body is still missing. She gets another letter, but it was an invitation. But she then see’s in her shower room saying, “I Still Know” and the fishermen’s shadow appears.

to me this book is very interesting even though it was scary but still amazing. i would think that readers would love to read this book unless they are not afraid of the dark. Because it was a little creepy reading in the dark and it like if some one was wacthing you while reading a book. But I knew that it was fiction. (less)

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04/21/09

Mike rated it:

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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01/06/09

Sherrel Fox added it

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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06/10/09

Xiao Yan rated it:

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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12/02/08

Hannah rated it:

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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07/04/08

Ally rated it:

bookshelves: own-it-

Great horror book for anyone who loves mysteries and horror combined!

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04/12/08

Courtney rated it:

This wasn't my favorite book, yet it was a good one.

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08/27/08

Tracy rated it:

bookshelves: books-made-into-movies, boy-man-masculine-tales, friendship, girl-woman-feminine-tales, horror, mystery-suspense, young-adult

Read in July, 1996

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06/23/08

Relyn rated it:

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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05/04/08

Tiffanyy added it

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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04/04/08

♥{Miranda!®}♥ rated it:

Read in April, 2008

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02/11/08

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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02/05/08

Mark Plaugher rated it:

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bookshelves: power-player

Read in January, 2008

recommends it for: Middle School Students

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English 425 Submitter’s name: Mark Plaugher
Book Bank Book Bank subject: Power Player

Reference information:
Title: “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
Author: Lois Duncan
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Year: 1973
# of pages: 199 Genre: Fiction Novel
Reading level Interest level: Middle School students
Potential hot lava: Nothing out of the ordinary

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04/10/09

Taneysha forsyth rated it:

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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03/13/09

Lucas Wilson rated it:

Read in November, 2008

recommends it for: Teens

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01/13/09

Lesley rated it:

bookshelves: tweens-and-teens, underappreciated

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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06/02/08

B o M b rated it:

Read in July, 2008

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04/13/08

Mayve rated it:

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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04/30/09

Tiah Keever rated it:

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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