Games

by Robin Klein

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670814032
• ISBN13: 9780670814039
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Viking Children's Books
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

One Great Writer!!!!!!!

I don't think I could tell you how fantastic this book is,or how fine a writer Robin Klein is.She has a very unique way of describing everything.She didn't actually TELL us that Kirsty had very pale(and cold) blue eyes.She told us they were the colour of rain and we get the message.The novel itself is about three girls,but mainly Patricia,the school geek.Kirsty and Genevieve are two very popular girls,but they are evil and cruel and heartless,and possibly even jealous of Patricia's IQ.They invite her along with them to spend the night at the spooky old house that belongs to Kirsty's aunt,or Genevieves aunt perhaps.Im not sure.While there some extremely strange things start to happen,the kind of occurences a poltergeist might cause.Is there really a ghost or is someone playing a mean trick?You'll have fun finding out.I read the whole thing in one sitting.Klein is a very very talented author.

games people play...

When Patricia, (the unpopular smart girl) at school is invited for a weekend away with Kirsty and Genevieve at their Aunts house in the country, she is flattered. Desperate to fit in at her new school and make friends, they all set off to the big old house in the bush. The weather turns foul and the girls are stuck inside the forboding house while aunt is away. Boredom soon turns to fun as they find a diary left in the house by its old occupants. The girls decide to have a seance and with a oija board, try to contact the dead inhabitants. That's when the fun and games really begin!I first read this book when i was about 10 and i was mesmerised by it! i borrowed it from the school library at least 3 times a year up until my final year! By this time the librarian's were used to my bizarre taste in literature. I love this book and would love to find another copy of it somewhere. The hardcover copy had a drawn map of the house on its inside covers, which was very helpful as the house is quite a sprawling mansion.An excellent read. I always thought that `Games' would make a wonderful independant film.

"Games" should be read on a dark and stormy night...

"Games" is a brilliant book, which can be enjoyed by anyone. If read on a dark and stormy night, it has the power to chill the bones of even the most experienced ghost story readers and tellers. It tells the story of a misfit girl, trying her best to impress the two coolest girls ate her school. She goes with them on a weekend away at a dark mansion owned by a frail old aunt, who mysteriously disappears. After a serious feud between the girls, they make a discovery of an old diary, which tells the story of the owners of the house who have since passed on but now remain there to haunt. I'll leave the rest to your imagination...READ THIS BOOK!