Shock+Point

  **__Shock Point__, by Ap** **ril H ****enry **  c2006 Contemporary Realistic   Bklst gr 8+; Krks & PW age 12+; SLJ gr 7+  // " Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet." //  Recommended by Barrington Middle School Library - 7th gr. female student who wrote: "This is my all-time favorite author. I love action, thriller and suspenseful books! __Girl Stolen__ was the first book I read by her, and made me read her others." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">View the NHUPAC entry for Shock Point here. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Available in paperback is ALWAYS a good thing - :-) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">--Dee, CMS  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It seemed that there were too many things going on in this one - with a mean stepfather at the root of it all....I lost interest pretty quickly. Yvette/Merrimack <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I also was disappointed, and, I think it's too dark emotionally for it to be highlighted as a recommended read for 7/8 grade readers. Amy Perry/BMS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; display: block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">