Scared Stiff

by Willo Davis Roberts

Book Overview

This bestselling classic mystery filled with "clever sleuthing" ( Publishers Weekly ) by two brothers looking for information about their missing mother from three-time Edgar Award--winning author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689316925
• ISBN13: 9780689316920
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Scared Stiff

In this story Rick and Kenny Van Huler's where involved in a mystery .This story took place in many different places . There father's truck was robbed when on the job of selling televisions and then he ran away from home . Then there mother got in a car with a man she didn't know and then she became missing. So then they went and lived with there Uncle Henry in his trailer park waiting for there mother to return . Then Rick and Kenny met two new friends Connie and Julie and then they decide to search the Abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park that is next door to the trailer park. Then when they get there they go on the most terrifying roller coaster ride of there lives.

Scared Stiff

In this book, Rick, the main characters are an eleven year old boy and his younger brother Kenny who is seven. Teh boys'father is a truck driver who's load gets stolen one night. The mother asks the father if he had anything to do with it. The two dults get into a fight and the father leaves. The parents were not "divorced" the dad just left. Neighter parent filed for a divorce, and at the end the boy hopes that the father will come back home. The mother discovers much information about the case and is kidnapped so she will not tell. The kid-nappers try to capture her two sons so she will tell them what she knows. THe boys' friends, Connie and Julie, help them solve the mystery and escape from the kid-nappers. I am thirteen and I enjoyed this book thoroughly. It was very exciting and suspensful. I have read one other of Willo Davis Robert's books and found it equally exciting. She is a very creative writer and her books deserve 5 stars for mystery,adventure,and action in my opinion.

Scared Stiff

I read scared stiff when I was in the third grade in 1992, after my library teacher read it. It is such a good book that now in 1999, I remember the title after not reading it for seven years and I will be purchasing it for a much younger friend of mine. Even though it is at times unrealistic, it provokes the imagination of those who read it and imprints itself in a person's memory.

IT was great

It is about two kids and their parents just divorced.Their mom got kidnapped so they live with their uncle in a trailor park.They meat a freind and try to find their mom.This is a very suspenseful book .Sometimes you can relate to the book.It is also a very good mystery.

EXCELLANT!

this is the best book I have read so far by Willo. It is a book for 9 to13 years olds. It is about young kids