The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matt...
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Jul 20, 2011
Emma
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I kind of expected something like the Gone books for this one. I know, I know: it's not sci-fi, it's realistic fiction and there's no evil alien life force or autistic five year old controlling the whole thing.
Whatever. I wanted them to start eating each other.
I'm joking. Mostly. (Cannibalism does add to the intensity of the story).
The premise behind Trapped (kids getting snowed into their school for a while) is really only good in theory. There's not much to More...
Whatever. I wanted them to start eating each other.
I'm joking. Mostly. (Cannibalism does add to the intensity of the story).
The premise behind Trapped (kids getting snowed into their school for a while) is really only good in theory. There's not much to More...
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Nov 03, 2011
elissa
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I'm glad that I wasn't annoyed by the ending, as many other readers have been. It was definitely abrupt, but it made sense to me. This is a quick read, with great descriptions, and a strong voice. I expected it to get even more horrific than it did, and was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I think I partly assumed it would get horrific because the front door of the building, on the cover, looks like a maw to me. The voice seemed kind of "classic YA"
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Jul 01, 2011
Kaethe
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What the author did right: it's an interesting set-up, with a random group of students and a teacher trapped in a high school during an unprecedented northeaster which has dumped a tremendous amount of snow in a short time. Northrup avoids a Breakfast Club formula where everyone overcomes their different cliques and bonds, instead amping up the tension among the students.
What the author did wrong: the guys get to be real people, the girls exist only as plot devices and sex objects. More...
What the author did wrong: the guys get to be real people, the girls exist only as plot devices and sex objects. More...
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Feb 22, 2012
Arthur
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Reading Level: Grades 7+
When school closes early because of a snowstorm, Scotty’s first reaction is anger, that his basketball game is canceled. His anger soon abates when his best friends Jason and Pete smooth-talk their way into the shop to work on a go-kart until rides arrive. Soon the only people left in the school are Scotty, Jason, Pete, two freshman girls, a weird kid named Elijah, a thug named Les, and the teacher responsible for waiting until everyone’s ride came. The snow k More...
When school closes early because of a snowstorm, Scotty’s first reaction is anger, that his basketball game is canceled. His anger soon abates when his best friends Jason and Pete smooth-talk their way into the shop to work on a go-kart until rides arrive. Soon the only people left in the school are Scotty, Jason, Pete, two freshman girls, a weird kid named Elijah, a thug named Les, and the teacher responsible for waiting until everyone’s ride came. The snow k More...
Feb 09, 2012
Karen
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This is no ordinary snow storm. School has let out for the day because unprecedented amounts of snow have fallen on the east coast. Six students are left in the school with the industrial arts teacher, who eventually gives up and heads out. The remaining students hunker down, breaking into the cafeteria to find food, finding water, keeping fires burning in trash cans when the building becomes too cold. After several days, the roof of the school starts collapsing, and the kids start to think that
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Jan 30, 2012
Alicia
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Jan 18, 2012
Judy
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Abrupt ending.
I feel cheated! The book is a good read and I was truly feeling like I was in a snow storm and should be staying home from school. The characters were fairly typical; from various groups of a high school, sort of like Breakfast Club, as someone else suggested. Still the premise is that seven kids were all snowed in at their high school, after missing their bus, and alone after a teacher went out for help and did not return. So how was I cheated? Because the book built More...
I feel cheated! The book is a good read and I was truly feeling like I was in a snow storm and should be staying home from school. The characters were fairly typical; from various groups of a high school, sort of like Breakfast Club, as someone else suggested. Still the premise is that seven kids were all snowed in at their high school, after missing their bus, and alone after a teacher went out for help and did not return. So how was I cheated? Because the book built More...
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Dec 27, 2011
Cecelia
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Well I guess the idea of the book was a good one, but the actual reasult? Umm... Not so much. It wasn't a horrible book that I closed after the first page or anything, but it will never be one of my favorites. The main problem had with the books were the characters. I mean I really, Really, REALLY, disliked the main character and had no real fondness over any other character either. I only had some little, tiny, flickering feeling for Jason, MAYBE a little more for Elijh. The rest of them were
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Dec 12, 2011
Kaity
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November 29, 2011
Trapped
I am going to give it a positive review. I liked the book a lot all though it was not my favorite book I still enjoyed it. I liked the book because it was something different. I also liked the book because it seemed so short. I also did not like the book because it seemed so slow and seemed liked it dragged on.
I thought the plot was very realistic. It was not realistic for the book at all. There were s More...
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November 29, 2011
Trapped
I am going to give it a positive review. I liked the book a lot all though it was not my favorite book I still enjoyed it. I liked the book because it was something different. I also liked the book because it seemed so short. I also did not like the book because it seemed so slow and seemed liked it dragged on.
I thought the plot was very realistic. It was not realistic for the book at all. There were s More...
Nov 22, 2011
Lisa
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Nov 11, 2011
Jessica
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Do you know how you would react if you became trapped in high school, snow so deep you could'nt go anywhere and no adult supervision? This is what happened to seven teens, a mix of them that knew each other by name and three that grew up together as best friends. Four days go by as these young adults get to know each other better and their personalities combined together to survive hunger, fear, sleep deprivation and the cold. Terrified of freezing to death with no heat and only canned fruits an
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Oct 27, 2011
Shannon
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I have been struggling with a few adult books so I turned to the young adult section at the library and got sucked in by the first page of this book. I didn't put it down until I was finished reading it. It wasn't the type of story that will change your life but it is definately exciting and surprising. The characters were good and very typical of high school kids from any era, as far as cliques go this story proves that particular dark side of high school will never go away.
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Oct 25, 2011
Lynn
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Oct 15, 2011
Amy
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Another book I picked up that is on sale at my book fair. I read it in a few hours so it is a quick read. The story idea is a good one, where a small group of high school students get trapped in their school during a huge storm. The part that really rubbed me the wrong way was the narration of the story. It is told by a basketball player named Scotty. It felt like the author was trying too hard to give the narration a true teen feel. I didn't really feel sorry for the people that were trapped be
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Oct 06, 2011
Jenny
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The premise is so compelling that it propels the story along at clip speed: Seven high school kids are trapped inside a high school in the middle of a terrible blizzard that shuts down the entire region. As the days wear on, and the expected rescuers never arrive, the group pulls together to survive. But with no lights, no electricity, and no heat, their situation becomes ever more desperate. And, in addition, the roof is beginning to cave in! This is not an attempt to redo Lord of the Flies.
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Sep 28, 2011
Robert
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Michael Northrop, Trapped (Scholastic Press, 2001)
Full disclosure: this book was provided to me free of charge by Amazon Vine.
Solid, if overly abrupt, man-vs.-nature tale geared toward the middle school set. I simultaneously like and dislike the way the book opens. I like it because it's gutsy; Northrop immediately hits us with the fact that our narrator, Scotty, survives the book, but that others in the group don't. I dislike it because (a) Northrop ends up overplaying t More...
Full disclosure: this book was provided to me free of charge by Amazon Vine.
Solid, if overly abrupt, man-vs.-nature tale geared toward the middle school set. I simultaneously like and dislike the way the book opens. I like it because it's gutsy; Northrop immediately hits us with the fact that our narrator, Scotty, survives the book, but that others in the group don't. I dislike it because (a) Northrop ends up overplaying t More...
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Aug 10, 2011
Michelle
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“We were the last seven kids waiting to get picked up from Tattawa Regional High School…But we weren’t going anywhere. Mr. Gossell, Jason’s dad, Krista’s mom, whoever it was we were waiting for, they had nothing to do with us anymore. No one did. It was just the seven of us, the seven of us and the endless snow…(and) not all of us made it.”
School let out early for a winter storm. Scotty Weems and his friends Jason and Pete took to opportunity to stay after school and spend a few h More...
School let out early for a winter storm. Scotty Weems and his friends Jason and Pete took to opportunity to stay after school and spend a few h More...
Jul 31, 2011
Jaime
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This book is based on an outlandish premise: a days-long blizzard literally buries a town, dumping dozens of feet of snow and trapping everyone where they happened to be when it started. In this case, it traps seven kids and a teacher in the high school. Cell phones and land lines aren’t working, vehicles (not even plows) can get through, and it isn’t long before the power is also gone.
What this book really comes down to one question: What would you do to survive? Because these are tee More...
What this book really comes down to one question: What would you do to survive? Because these are tee More...
Jul 20, 2011
kari
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WHERE'S THE ENDING???
That's the sum of my opinion, where's the ending? The story simply stops. This did not please me. There needed to be another few chapters or at the very least an epilogue. Maybe put it in as a newspaper column, just the who, what, when, where, why, how. I needed to know more and for that reason I took away one star.
The other star lost is that there is no character development. I didn't know these characters any better at the end of the book than I knew them at th More...
That's the sum of my opinion, where's the ending? The story simply stops. This did not please me. There needed to be another few chapters or at the very least an epilogue. Maybe put it in as a newspaper column, just the who, what, when, where, why, how. I needed to know more and for that reason I took away one star.
The other star lost is that there is no character development. I didn't know these characters any better at the end of the book than I knew them at th More...
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Jul 17, 2011
K.B.L.
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I have always liked a story about survival and being trapped with a select few individuals; I like seeing what different people do in times of distress. This book, despite its issues with verb tenses and plethora of references to mass marketed cultural objects, was a great read. The reason that I don't feel it deserves 5 stars is due to the above mentioned issues, but especially the ending.
The story begins with the narrator talking in past tense -- and then the ending stops abruptl More...
The story begins with the narrator talking in past tense -- and then the ending stops abruptl More...
May 01, 2011
Ilsa
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Take a blizzard. Make it really bad. Like, storm of the century bad. Throw in seven kids, not all of whom are friends, and strand them in the high school. Now, make sure they have no power, no way out, no ability to let anyone even know where they are. Stir and stand back–and you have the makings for a potentially fascinating book on the individual and group dynamics of survival. This was a great premise–and yet I kind of hesitated to recommend this because while parts of it are very, very
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Apr 29, 2011
Charleen
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It has been a while since I have so involved into a book's plot. Whilst reading this book I doubled my time at the gym (in the bike) and went to sleep past my bed time one night.
The story revolves around a group of high school students caught in a terrifying Nor'easter. They are stranded at their high school with out heat, water or electricity. But, at least they have the Mystery Meat from the cafeteria! It is interesting to see how resourceful this group of kids is but how they are s More...
The story revolves around a group of high school students caught in a terrifying Nor'easter. They are stranded at their high school with out heat, water or electricity. But, at least they have the Mystery Meat from the cafeteria! It is interesting to see how resourceful this group of kids is but how they are s More...
Apr 29, 2011
Colin
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An okay book. Speaking from the POV of an 18 year old male high school student (as the reader) who is not usually into reading, the book seemed overly stereotypical and filled with wry humor (the girl being the dumb blonde with her friend, the creepy kid's weird and pointless sayings, etc).
One thing I liked about this book? The theme as a whole. The entire sense of adventure is riveting to me, and I love the context the story takes place in (trapped high school students with surviva More...
One thing I liked about this book? The theme as a whole. The entire sense of adventure is riveting to me, and I love the context the story takes place in (trapped high school students with surviva More...
Apr 24, 2011
Kristina
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Scotty and his friends begin a normal high school day, but it ends anything but normal as an unprecedented storm hits the area trapping him and six other students in the school under a blanket of snow that continues to grow. As morning comes and the students realize the snow continued to pile up all night and with no break in sight they settle into survival mode. The story, told by Scotty, shows us how he, his two best friends, a bully, an outsider and two popular girls face the tragic situati
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Mar 27, 2011
Savannah
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Mar 23, 2011
BAYA
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Seven students are trapped in their high school during the worst blizzard ever. Will they survive? This slightly heavy-handed thriller uses the teaser that one student will not survive to draw readers in. The situation is believeable- the school is closed, the buses go, and seven students who are waiting for rides are left behind with a teacher- who goes out to help a motorist, and (presumably) dies in the blizzard, leaving the students behind.
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The characters were a bit predictable, but More...
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Mar 22, 2011
Kate
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This was a really amazing book. 7 students are trapped at their high school as Snowpocolpse rages outside. They were supposed to go home early, but for one reason or another they were still in the school waiting hours later. Their rides home never showed up. The roads were closed and nobody was getting in or out. From there it becomes an interesting look at several things- how the weather can hold you captive, how the social structure that makes up a school changes when the need arises and how p
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Mar 11, 2011
Bonnie at
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A fair warning: If you read this book, Mother Nature might decide to wrap up some bad weather with a bow and send it your way. Last week, it was uncommonly warm--We had weather in the low 70s (about 20 degrees Celsius)! The night I finished reading Trapped by Michael Northrop, we had howling winds (Seriously. They were going 40-50 mph. Yowch!), which set the mood nicely and made me feel more intimately-acquainted with the story. Reading a book about snow is just asking for trouble, though! We ha
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Feb 28, 2011
Kelly
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Scotty and his two best friends, Pete and Jason, decide to stay after school to work on a project Jason's building in shop class. It's one of those stupid decisions that usually doesn't change anything, but this time it changes everything. School let out early because of a blizzard and so the three of them are now stuck at school. (Four other teens are also stranded with them; the lone grownup went for help and never comes back.) It keeps snowing and they lose power. That means there's also
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Feb 08, 2011
School is let out early because of a massive blizzard. Everyone is supposed to get home before the weather gets worse. But Scotty Weems and his friends decide to stay after for a couple hours to work on a shop project, figuring that one of their parents will be able to pick them up on the way home from work. This turns out to be a really bad (and really deadly) decision. Along with several other students and one teacher, they are trapped in the school by the snow. And it keeps coming. And coming
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