The Duplicate

by William Sleator

Book Overview

When David finds a mysterious machine that can copy living things, he thinks his problems are over. By duplicating himself, he can visit his grandmother and keep his date with Angela. While the other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141304316
• ISBN13: 9780141304311
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

The Duplicate is the Best Book Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Duplicate is an awesome book. I absolutely loved it. It is full of suspense, which makes it very exciting. I couldn't stop reading it. Every time I want to stop, I can't because I want to find out what's going to happen next. The Duplicate is about a boy who makes a copy of himself, so he can go to two places at once. However, that causes problems because they can't let anyone find out about them. They find a hideout where one of them could stay and the other could go to school. One day, the original finds another duplicate, and that means even more problems. The two duplicates fight, but you have to read the book to find out what happens after the battle. Overall, The Duplicate is an amazing book. I would reccomend this book to people of all ages. I beleive that everyone should enjoy this book. By Tom I.

The Duplicate

By William Sleator The story is about a boy. The boy had a date, but had to go to his grandma's party. He finds a device that can duplicate living organisms. He duplicated himself. The duplicate went on the date. Later the duplicate found a hideout. It was an old watchtower. The duplicate duplicated himself. They both planned to kill the original. It was the best book I ever read. I liked the whole entire story.

The Duplicate

I give The Duplicate five out five stars because it had lots of action with some romance. I like how this book leaves you in suspence at the end of every chapter. William Sleator used soom good description. When he describes David, the author says, "I'm a good son, decent, well behaved, and all that boring stuff." He also describes Carl as "Very tall, with curly black hair, and dark eyes." I also like how he wrote the book. He wrote it so everyone can understand what is going on. In addition to the action to the action and romance, there is a little bit of mystery and a little bit of fright. Since I really liked this book, I don't think there are many bad things. But one thing I didn't like was the very last line. It makes you want to read on but it is the end of the book. Also, this author did not wrap all the questions at the end of the book. Just like the other chapters, William Sleator leaves you in suspense. But, there is no sequal to this book so you don't know what happens. I would recommend this book because it is really interesting and you will wonder what will happen next. This book would be good for everyone because it has a little bit of everything in it. I learned that in the future when we are able to duplicate ourselves, it might not be as good as everyone thinks it will be. This book helped me understand that having a duplicate is not like having a twin sister or brother.

THIS BOOK HAS AN INTERESTING PLOT

I like this book, it is very interesting. The plot gets more and more exciting. Its about a boy that finds a machine that makes duplicates, and he duplicates himself to go to 2 places but then things get bad from there

this and all of his other books ROCK!

i first heard about this author when my brother checked interstellar pig and now i've read almost all of his books and i thought that they were all awsome!