Now in hardcover for the first time, a book that has been hailed as a classic: As part of their high school orientation, a group of students hikes into the woods. What they don’t immediately realize is that their parents do not plan for them to come out alive.
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Parents get mad at their teenagers all the time, right? But what if your parents got so mad that they decided to have you killed?! That's what happened to the kids in Group 6, but they don't know it yet. They think that they've been sent to Coldbrook Country School in order to get straightened out. Sure, all of them admit to having caused their parents a few problems, but they're just normal kids. They have no idea that their parents hate them enough to kill them. Group 6 is about to find out exactly what's in store for them at Coldbrook. Will they survive? Hailed as groundbreaking when first published in 1983, this novel has been rereleased in hardback for a new audience. Robert Cormier calls it, "... an extraordinary novel, by turns harrowing and hilarious, almost relentless in its suspense ..."
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"A remarkable literary style and frightening inventiveness." --Publishers Weekly
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Striking. This is a book that will stay with you.,
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This review is from: The Grounding of Group 6 (Hardcover)
I read it years and years ago and lost the paperback version I had. Suddenly one day I just needed to re-read it, and was delighted to find that it had been re-released in hardback. :) The story line is what makes this book special--I've never read a book with a similar concept. Also, you can relate to the characters, there's a little bit of them in all of us; each character has a distinct personality, slightly reminscient of the characters from "The Breakfast Club." I highly recommend it to anyone, teen or not.
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I have read this book at least 30 times. I first read it when I was 13, in 1983 and it really made me think about who I was and who I wanted to be. I last read it last week at 35 and I am now passing it along to my 13 year old son. It is a book that should be read by everyone, teens and parents alike will get a kick out of this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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An old favorite,
This review is from: The Grounding of Group 6 (Hardcover)
I am pleasantly surprised to find that I am not the only person who fell in love with this book back in the 1980's. I first read it when I was in high school, in fact, I even kept it from the library and never took it back, I liked it so much (they charged me for it, so no thinking I stole it). In the ensuing years, I have often felt like one of the previous reviewers who felt like they "had" to re-read it, and I cannot even count how many times I have re-read it. I just recently found myself talking to my best friend and recommending it to her when we were discussing books that we'd read in high school and which ones we liked. She asked to borrow my copy (dog eared as it is) and I'm not sure I want to loan it to her, just because I'm afraid that she will not want to give it back. I will be happy to tell her that she can buy her own copy if she likes the book. I'm not sure what it is about this book that has so many people coming back to read it over and over, but it strikes a resonant chord in a lot of people.
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The people in their group, Group 6, were all sixteen, all five of them, and none of them was fat. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Homer Cone, Spring Lake Lodge, Levi Welch, Coldbrook Country School, Luke Lemaster, Boynton Falls, Group Six, Doctor Simms, New York, Sandra Reynolds-Nix, North Egg Mountain, Jen Maloney, Social Register, Long Island, Nat Rittenhouse, Burger King, Foote Hall, Jesus Christ, Milky Ways, Robin Hood, Sergeant Sturgis, Arn-the-Barn Emfatico, Bloody Marys, Prosper Nix, Terence Arthur Updike New!
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The people in their group, Group 6, were all sixteen, all five of them, and none of them was fat. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Homer Cone, Spring Lake Lodge, Levi Welch, Coldbrook Country School, Luke Lemaster, Boynton Falls, Group Six, Doctor Simms, New York, Sandra Reynolds-Nix, North Egg Mountain, Jen Maloney, Social Register, Long Island, Nat Rittenhouse, Burger King, Foote Hall, Jesus Christ, Milky Ways, Robin Hood, Sergeant Sturgis, Arn-the-Barn Emfatico, Bloody Marys, Prosper Nix, Terence Arthur Updike New!
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- The Treasure Hunt (A Loppy Ears adventure) by Frances Lindsay on page 250
- The Trials of Molly Sheldon by Julian F. Thompson in Front Matter
- Ghost Story by Julian F. Thompson in Front Matter
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