Scared Stiff by Willo Davis Roberts

Scared Stiff

Willo Davis Roberts

192 pages first pub 1991 (view editions)

fiction middle grade mystery mysterious fast-paced
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Scared Stiff is perfect for the reader who wants to follow four determined kids sneaking into a shuttered amusement-park wasteland next to a lonely trailer court to hunt for the truth behind their mother’s vanishing, while every creaking ride and shadowy fun-house corridor ratchets the tension ever higher.

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Rick and Kenny's Pa was right -- troubles really do happen in threes. First Pa's truck was robbed, then Pa ran off, leaving Rick, Kenny, and Ma to fend for themselves, and now Ma has disappeared, too. Rick just knows Ma would never leave them on p...

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Community Reviews

3.63
based on 35 reviews

Moods

mysterious: 100%

tense: 100%

adventurous: 66%


Pace

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