Flyers

By Daniel Hayes

Book Overview

All his life, Gabe Riley has heard about sightings of ghosts and swamp monsters at Blood Red Pond, but he knows the green, scaly creature that attacks Ray McPherson's old Buick one night isn't real. It's just crazy Rosasharn, getting carried away with his leading role in the horror movie Gabe and his friend Bo are making for their Gifted and Talented project.

But it's not so easy to explain some of the other curious things that start happening in Gabe's neighborhood. Why is his father more melancholy than usual? What secret is his younger brother, Ethan, hiding from him? Why are food and clothes disappearing from their home? And who or what is behind the strange lights in old Mr. Lindstrom's supposedly empty farmhouse?

Gabe is determined to find the answers to these questions. But Gabe discovers there are far deeper questions involved, and he will have to confront more than ghosts before he understands the significance of the mysterious events.

With his trademark humor and flawless ear for the language and concerns of young adults, Daniel Hayes has created an unforgettable cast of characters in a story that is part comedy, part mystery, and part a thought-provoking exploration of friendship, family relationships, love, and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442488816
• ISBN13: 9781442488816
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

THis is a review of Flyers

Recommendation: I recommend this book for kids 13 and up. The reason why is because it is about friendship and 3 people who fight sometimes. " Gabe needs to find answers to all of these problems because he doesn't want to ruin a good friendship". The book discusses the problems teens can get into and how people fight a lot. Another good thing that I like about the book is that it gives you an idea about how to handle a situation in the right way. ''Gabe needs to find help with his problems between his friends.'' People can get along with other people if they handle their problems in a good way.

Great!

I read this book, along with the rest of Daniel Hayes's books and I have to say,There great!

Brilliant; but tedious

I had to read this book as an assignment for my 8th grade Language Arts class. I read it, and was left feeling cold, but along with that the ending was actually well-written. "Flyers" gets pretty tedious... the topics(which are usually boring ones) usually just ramble on and on, for about 20 pages filled with hard-to-read words. After about an hour, I had to either decide weather I would want to continue this book or not... but I finished it, and I'm surprised on how well the ending turned out. A book for fast readers.