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A school trip goes disastrously wrong when five troubled high school students find themselves trapped in an underground cave. Their best chance of escape is to stay together. But when a member of the group disappears, their hope of finding a way out starts to fade. Does one of the remaining four know more than he or she is letting on, or is there something evil lurking in the caves?
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Catherine MacPhail is the author of Dark Waters and Missing and has won many awards in the UK for her writing. She lives in Scotland.
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Catherine MacPhail is the author of Dark Waters and Missing and has won many awards in the UK for her writing. She lives in Scotland.
Grade 7-10 -Readers who happen to be familiar with the film The Breakfast Club may recognize this title as being, basically, a subterranean version of the 1985 teen-angst classic. Instead of being trapped in a daylong study hall together, five British teens-each one with a distinctly different background and temperament-find themselves trapped in a labyrinthine cave during a field trip in Scotland after a rock slide suddenly seals up the entrance and leaves the group's advisor unconscious. The squabbling students eventually realize that they must put their differences aside and cooperate if they are to survive and-you guessed it-within the course of the ordeal, the angriest and most arrogant among them have their tender undersides exposed. Eventually, all of the cave-bound kids come to realize on some level that fear is the common denominator that drives all kinds of superficial teen behaviors and that one can only overcome insecurity through empathy and understanding. The melodramatic tone and stereotypical characters are questionable enough, but it's this type of exposition-and the story is rife with it-that really drives the novel into cheeseville: "That was in another life, another world. The world up there. Down here, they had all changed." Still, less-discerning readers may enjoy the quick pace and spooky suspense as they work their way to the predictably happy ending.-Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI
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- PublisherBloomsbury USA Children's Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1582349975
- ISBN 13 9781582349978
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages250
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