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The Pricker Boy (2009)

by Reade Scott Whinnem(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0375857192 (ISBN13: 9780375857195)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Random House Books for Young Readers

review 1: What if the ghost tale you told around the campfire started to come true? For Stucks and his friends it has. Since they were small they have told tales about the Pricker Boy—a once-human boy who is now more plant than boy and who lives among the thorn bushes that infest the woods just beyond the kids’ campfire circle. When they were young they gave offerings to Pricker Boy to keep him pacified, but this summer their offerings have been returned. Is it one of the group playing a practical joke? Or is Pricker Boy finally going to come for them? Nightmarish and spine-tingling, this coming-of-age story will make your skin crawl, but you’ll love the characters so much, you will want to take the fearsome “widow’s walk” right along with them.--Review by K... morearrie
review 2: A horror story started by friends about a "pricker boy" who is made up of thorns and comes to take children away is made-up, right? That's what it seems, until Stucks and his friends find a package of all their toys each of them every left on a "Widow's Walk", which was supposed to ward off the Pricker Boy. A creepy story not to be read before bedtime that also deals with friends growing apart as they get older. I liked how the book played with what was real and what wasn't, leaving me wondering even at the end. less

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