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Flash Fire

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Caroline Cooney's "Flash Fire" is a real page turner. I think that anyone who reads this book will be almost guarenteed to enjoy it. Although I think "Emergency Room" is better for the writing style, teachers will find this book easy to use for novel studies. I just had to read this book for a novel study and so many kids read ahead. They were unable to stop reading ahead. Here is a part from the book that I remember: As Hall Press laid in his swimming pool staring up at the orange sky, resembling a basketball, a group of bikers jumped over the hill, the fire right on their heels and disapeared into the canyon. Now, this may not be the exact words but that was the way I enterpreted it. The only thing that you have to keep in mind is to pay close attention to what happens so you don't wind up like a classmate of mine. As we were in reading group, discussing the ending of the book he asked "Did he die??"

If you are pondering the answer to this question, read "Flash Fire". You won't be disapointed! :)

Flash Fire is definately a 5 star rating! Caroline B. Cooney is an excellent suspenseful author. If you like to read and I mean not stop, this is a book for you. At the end of every section there is a cliff hanger which makes you want to go on! We read this for our natural disaster unit in school. We had to read a section a day, but kids couldn't stop at the end of each section and kept reading. (Each section was about 20-30 pages.) I recomend this to teachers who are looking for a great book for novel studies, and kids who love adventures. This a sad and happy book. You see conflicts from two points of view. You meet a whole bunch of characters, each different in their own way! You learn a lot about California and natural disasters. Read this book to find out if the kids can make it down through the huge Pinch Canyon Fire. Do you think they'll make it down?

Have you ever wanted to know how it is to be in a natural disaster? In Flash Fire, it feels like you're really in the book going through the disaster. Right after another you're just wondering what is going on,in every chapter. You get to like and dislike the people in this book. You can relate to how they feel in this book. It was a great book and I really enjoyed reading it. Flash Fire is the type of book you do not want to put down, and when you have to, you tend to think about it all the time.

This book was boring at the start but got better and better the more I read. I liked this book because I like action and a bit of sadness. I also liked this book because it showed different people's perspectives. It taught me how to escape fires and what to take with you when your house is on fire. This book is one book you can't put down. You will love this book from part of the beginning to the end. This book will teach you many ways to survive a fire. You've got to try out this book.

I hated this book...and I usually love books about natural disasters. Maybe I read too much, but this book is for people who watch fishing(aka, people with no life at all.) First of all, there are too many characters. As one of your reviewers pointed out, the point of view changes too much...and how! There are so many charcters that we don't really get any time to start caring about them all. Just when a tear is going to exit your eyes about one character, the point of view changes and you don't hear about that person for another 20 pages. I like Caroline Cooney's work, I loved Face on the Milk Carton and Driver's Ed(which is one of my favorite books of all time), but she totally embrasses herself with this book. She thought that she could gain more popularity if she changed to more popular subjects like natural disasters, but you can't help but notice that there are too many characters. More than once I asked myself during reading it, "Where's that person I read about before?" They could be burning in the fire for all we know, there's not enough information about what happens to them, but there's too much about their personal lives. I give this book 2 stars because I respect Caroline Cooney and I'll give her another chance, but if she writes another bad book like this, it will be the last straw for me. You know what?..I can't continue with this review anymore, I am going to burn my copy of Flashfire(get it? Flashfire) and dig up my old copy of Driver's Ed somewhere in the closet and remember how good Caroline B Cooney's books once were.

This book was so good! It was a total cliff hanger! This book is about 4 kids ; Beau, Elizabeth, Hall, and Dana. The setting of the story is at Pinch Canyon in California. The people who live there are very rich so they dont want to leave their houses even though the fire is spreading quickly!Beau and Elizabeth's parents are not home as well as Dana and Hall's. They are all alone with no help from their parents. Can they all make it down safely without help or does the fire catch them? For that answer you will have to read Flash Fire. This is for sure a 5 star book! So you must read Flash Fire by Caroline B. Cooney! She is a terrific author!I reccomend this book to 4th grade and up!

Although this was a page turner of a natural disaster thriller, I was more annoyed by than concerned for some of the characters. Dana is not a "typical" teenager, wealthy or not, to be whining that she isn't in the thick of things. Are all wealthy parents that self-involved and shallow? I wanted to reach into the pages, grab Beau's mother by the lapels and slap her until her head spun on her shoulders. What an evil woman! Ditto Geoffrey's adoptive parents.

On the other hand, are all poor people so cold, callous and cruel as the Gormans? As Chiffon? Didn't anyone wish that Chiffon got trapped into one of those made-for-tv movie turns of fate in which the cruel, mean, white-trash chick would get burned to a crisp?

There was no character development, no character change, no one, except maybe for Hall, made any real discoveries about themselves or others. (No, Dana DID get a clue toward the end that she was being pretty useless. I forgot that.)

I can't say I was bored and I do realize the story takes place in less than two hours, but it would have been nice to see some actual character development, maturing and even a little comeuppance.

This book is like being in a room of obnoxious people. You want to pick them up and slap them. It's a good book, but the characters are all very aggravating. Are people really that selfish and inconsiderate? I'd hate to meet one. From whiny to stupid, if you want an annoying person to hate, you'll find it. The book isn't like "OMG I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN!", but it makes you want to keep reading.

I honestly believe that this is a very good book, aimed mostly at teens though. Although I did like the book a lot, I wouldn't recommend it as a book meant to be "time consuming," as I finished it in a half an hour. There are some good points and bad points of this story. I didn't like the fact that there were, like 20 different characters. After a while, I got used to it, but it was hard to figure out at first. Another thing I didn't like was the fact that the storyline was sometimes confusing and I had to read over again. I feel that "Flash Fire" wasn't the best book by Ms. Cooney . That said, I like the book a lot. Some of the good points of the book were the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat plot, the nonstop adventure, and the thoroughly realistic storyline. I feel that "Flash Fire" is the perfect book for someone looking for adventure who has a tight schedule.

Flash Fire by Caroline B. Cooney was an okay book, to put it lightly, but certainly not the best novel, and it has a lot of characters.

It makes the plot kinda confusing. Anyways, inside the story, it switches to what's happening from character to character sort of, and they're not only talking about what's happening to the teenagers.

In the book, they are also discussing what's occuring to the parents, so it's kinda interesting.