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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780375838743
ISBN: 0375838740
Label: Yearling
Manufacturer: Yearling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
Publisher: Yearling
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 131371
Studio: Yearling
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ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD THOMAS HAMMOND has always lived next to Leepike Ridge. He never imagined he might end up lost beneath it! What Tom finds underground will answer questions he hadn’t known to ask and change his life forever.
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Rating: - A Boy, a Cave, a Dog, Dead Bodies and it's a Mystery. . .What's Not to Love!!
I have to agree with another review the cover of this book just hooked me. This came into the library where I work (5/6 grade) and I immediately snagged it. Read it in one night and have not seen the book on our shelves since!!! It has been out constantly since we put it in the collection. Our kids like it (mainly the boys and our teachers love it!!). There's action and creepiness. The scene in the cave was so vivid I could feel the cold damp and the spongy feel of the body as our hero, Tom, ... Read More
Rating: - A riveting adventure kids will relish.
N.D. Wilson's LEEPIKE RIDGE tells of a preteen who has always lived next to Leepike Ridge - but who finds himself lost beneath it when he escapes the man set to marry his mother and finds his escape raft has left him underground. His discoveries under the ridge - of a body, a dog and more - will answer questions and challenge his survival skills in a riveting adventure kids will relish.
Rating: - Extremely well written, but not for the squeamish
There are an awful lot of dead bodies per capita in this book, and quite a bit of fairly mindless violence, but that said, it's a page-turner that is extremely well written. Unlike other reviewers I found nothing confusing about the elements of the plot, just found some of them unlikely in the extreme (both the ostensible pre-historic Chinese settlers of the Americas and the ostensible pre-historic Phoenician settlers just happen to have come upon and used the same underground and under-river storage ... Read More
Rating: - One fantastic adventure!
I read a review that made comparisons between this book and Louis Sachar's Holes. This kind of comparison always makes me skeptical. "We'll just see about that," I thought. I read it. I saw. And I get it now. This one is worthy of that comparison -- and then some. And this book will definitely appeal to fans of Holes.
Leepike Ridge is a book for every kid (and every grown kid) who played in refrigerator boxes, caught critters in the woods, and floated down creeks on homemade rafts. ... Read More
Rating: - An Ingenious, Creative and Fun Read
I really enjoyed this book, with it's mix of Homer's Illiad, Mark Twain and something else that was completely Nathan Wilson. If you have a young reluctant reader in your family, give them a copy of this & watch the magic happen. I can't wait to see what else Wilson comes up with!
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EAN: 9780375838743
ISBN: 0375838740
Label: Yearling
Manufacturer: Yearling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: July 22, 2008
Publisher: Yearling
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 131371
Studio: Yearling