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Christina, a popular new girl at Oak Hill Academy, enrolls just in time to play Elimination, in which the students and teachers pretend to "kill" each other, but Zoe, a fellow student, soon learns that Christina is playing for real.
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Eric Velasquez has illustrated numerous childrenís books including Chain of Fire and Journey to Joíburg: A South African Story, both by Beverly Naidoo. He lives in New York City.
Grade 5-8?The students at Oak Hill School annually participate in a sort of icebreaker game, called Elimination, as a way of helping kids get to know one another. It involves tagging individuals and claiming their game cards until only one is left, holding all of the cards. This year the game has taken on added excitement because of Christina, a new girl who is particularly adept at playing. Zoe becomes frightened when the students whom Christina tags appear mesmerized by her. They start getting sick in large numbers. Soon Zoe begins to suspect that Christina is an alien. Her fears are confirmed and she and a friend try to keep the girl from winning the game. In an exciting climax, Zoe learns that the winner will be taken away in an alien Transport along with all of the zombielike children. At the last moment a teacher steps forward and saves the day, going off in the Transport alone. Despite the fast-moving plot, weaknesses abound. The game appears to be an end in itself; no clear motives for promoting it are ever revealed. Also, Zoe's parents seem unusually calm when she starts describing Christina's disconcerting habit of dissolving into tiny pinpoints of light before her eyes. Adults at the school are amazingly tolerant of the chaos and upheaval the game causes. This story is for young sci-fi fans who enjoy excitement but won't be too analytical when it's all over.?Bruce Anne Shook, Mendenhall Middle School, Greensboro, NC
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 068811332X
- ISBN 13 9780688113322
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages204
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: VG dust jacket (price clipped). Thompson, Ellen (jacket art) (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York:: Morrow Junior Books, 1995. A clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny, with one short closed tear to the front inner flap. No chips. No creases. Gift note on front endpaper. No remainder mark. By the author of MAZEMAKER and THE GILDED CAT. First printing, with complete number row (123456789 10) on the copyright page. Bound in the original green boards with a dark green cloth spine lettered in shiny gold. "Dexter's well-crafted science-fiction thriller centers on an eighth grader who, unbeknownst to her teachers and fellow students, is actually an alien planning to gain control of her classmates so that she can transport them to another galaxy. Sensible Zoe, the narrator, twigs to Christina's secret early on when she sees Christina turn into 'a huge swarm of sparks, like a spiral of gnats.' No one -- especially not Zoe's parents -- will believe her, not even when a strange sickness befalls the school, students start acting completely out of character, and teachers and administrators laugh off concerned parents. A school game called Elimination, played by tagging -- or 'killing' -- other students and teachers, frames the eerie goings-on, which culminate in a dramatic scene on a deserted mountaintop. Dexter is adept at the art of suspense, manipulating several story lines that converge remarkably in the climax, and lifting the veil on hidden information at just the right moments. Ages 10-up." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./VG dust jacket (price clipped). Illus. by Thompson, Ellen (jacket art). 8vo. (iv), 204pp. Seller Inventory # 007920
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