Shadow

by Joyce Sweeney

Book Overview

During the summer when her older brothers' fighting escalates dangerously, thirteen-year-old Sarah becomes increasingly aware of her ability to sense things that others cannot, including the presence... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385320515
• ISBN13: 9780385320511
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

You won't be able to put this book down

Summary: Sarah Shaheen is in the eighth grade. She lives in Florida with her mom, dad, and brother Patrick. Her older brother Brian goes to college at Florida University. During the novel he comes home from college for the summer. Sarah's cat Shadow died a few months ago. She loved her cat very much. Shadow was the most important thing in Sarah's life and was extremely torn when Shadow passed away. Sarah and her older Brother Patrick even made a little burial area for the cat in the back yard. Patrick and Brian absolutely hate each other. They do nothing but fight and argue. The main conflict between Brian and Patrick is when Patrick starts dating Brian's girlfriend Karen. Sarah starts thinking that she sees Shadow in her dreams and even when she is awake. The Shaheen's get a new maid to take care of the house. Her name is Cissy. She used to be a psychic and understands what Sarah is seeing because she (Cissy) can also see and feel the cat. Sarah and Cissy have a séance to find out why the cat is haunting Sarah. Cissy tells Sarah that the cat is trying to tell them something. The cat (Shadow) tells Sarah that somebody might die. Sarah now becomes very worried. Sarah tries to tell her family about her being able to see the cat sometimes (like when she saw it in the woods once) and she also tells her family about these strange dreams that she has with Shadow in them. Nobody in her family believes her. They all think she is crazy. Her best friend Julian doesn't believe her about what she is seeing and feeling. Sarah thought she could turn to him (Julian) for anything. The only person that believes her is Cissy. What did the cat want? Why was the cat haunting Sarah? What did it want? All of Sarah's questions get answered though.Review: I absolutely loved this book. I could not put the book down. I read the whole book in two nights. After I finished one chapter I would want to see what happens next so I'd read the next chapter but then after I finished that chapter I wanted to read the next chapter and so on. I ended up reading the whole book. It was so detailed and creative. There were so many little details that made the book very interesting. Who would be able to write such a creative book about a girls cat that died? It was without a doubt one of the best books I ever read.Recommendation: I recommend this book to everybody. No matter if you're a boy or girl I promise you will enjoy this book. Even if you don't like to read you will enjoy this book. I promise you that you will not be able to put it down. You will just start reading and before you know it you will be finished with the book. I guarantee it will be one of the best books you have ever read.

Great plot involving the supernatural

Sarah keeps seeing her cat Shadow. Her dead cat Shadow. Things are happening too fast for Sarah. Her older brother is home from college, her mother hires a new housekeeper, and Shadow keeps appearing in dreams. Her brothers fight often and their parents ignore them. Nobody believes that Shadow is there. Then it happens, the reason why Shadow had stayed instead of processeding on to the cat afterlife.Shadow is a nice, spenceful book that mixes in a bit of supernatural into the usual (if extreme) problems of life. The characters are well delevoped and rounded off nicely.

Cat lovers and supernatural lovers will enjoy this book!

This book was sooo exciting. I couldn't put it down. It almost made me believe it was real . . . that a cat could actually come back from the grave! The characters were really interesting and realistic, especially Sarah's brothers. Anyone who likes the supernatural (and who doesn't) wil love this book.

You'll be glued to this book

Sarah,a inteligante 8th grader seems to think that her dead cat,Shadow has been "hanging around". She can communicate with her but she has horrible dreams and expiriences and Shadow is always with her. What has Shadow come back for. Read this book and find out for yourself.

The best part of this book is the character descriptions.

As Sarah, the heroine, deals with supernatural manifestations and rising tensions between her brothers, she observes it all with the innocent yet wryly cynical view of a modern young girl. All the characters in the book -- from Sarah's philandering father to her sweet and awkward friend -- are portrayed realistically, but most realistic of all are Sarah's reactions to them. This book is a superb portrayal of a brilliant child, slightly at odds with the modern world but facing it with humor.