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Sweet Friday Island

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The Island

Peg Toland and her father Sam plan a camping trip to Mexico that turns out to be a fight for their lives. Sweet Friday Island is the planned destination, but two strangers, Raul Clemente and a very old woman, inform them that the island is not a good place to go. Peg and Sam decide to head to their planned vacation anyway and ignore the warning.

Camp is set up on Sweet Friday so Peg and Sam go for a swim. After a few hours they return to camp to fid missing items, their boat damaged, and Peg's clothing with knife holes. Their camping items that were taken could be considered weapons i.e. axe, fishing spear, knife. Unexplainable was Peg's missing makeup bag. Sam attempts to repair the boat with no success. They wished now, that they had listened to the stranger's warnings.

As the day continues, Peg and Sam realize there is someone out to get them. Peg nicknames their tormentor "Senior Psycho". Senior Psycho throws huge spiders down on them. He howls in the night, trying to get them to emerge from their camp area so he can squash them with boulders. In the day while searching for the psycho, Sam sprains his ankle and could barely walk. To top this all off, Senior Psycho takes Sam's shaving kit tatter holds all of his insulin and syringes needed for his diabetes. Without his insulin shot, Sam would soon be in a diabetic coma and death would follow shortly after.

Peg knows she must take action. With her father slipping into a comma, she plans to get the insulin back to save his life. Before he became useless, Sam made gas bombs to use on Senior Psycho. He took the two glass jars they had, filled them with motor oil, and inserted a fuse made of braided cloth. Peg prepared to use them. She followed the psycho into a small hidden cave, which she found was his home, and threw gas bomb in after him. When the smoke cleared she entered the cave cautiously and found Senior Psycho on the ground. He appeared to be dead so she grabbed the insulin and ran back to her father. Desperate to save him, Peg gave her father the shot. Not knowing how much to put in the syringe, she filled it three quarters of the way and hoped for the best. Sam slowly came to and Peg burned their damaged boat, hoping someone would come save them.

Raul Clemente and the old woman came to the island and were furious to see Peg and her father. They told the couple that they should have listened to the warning and they knew bad things were going to happen. Raul ran to the cave and dragged Senior Psycho out and onto the boat. He was not dead after all! Raul assisted Peg and Sam, with their belongings, onto the boat as well. They returned to the mainland.

Five or six years later, Peg continues to have nightmares about the trip. She sees a psychiatrist who tells her over and over to return to Mexico. Eventually she does and speaks to Raul. They talk and he informed her that senior Psycho was his father and the old woman was his mother. He said that they were both dead now. Senior Psycho was on Sweet Friday hiding from the police. He killed a man a long time ago and was insane. After talking a while Raul apologized for the events that occurred on Sweet Friday. As she left Mexico she felt better, knowing the truth about the crazy trip her and her father had taken.

As I began this book I thought it was boring and I didn't like it at all. It started slow but then the action took place. When they had to take revenge on Senior Psycho was the part that made the book interesting. You learned their struggle for survival. I enjoyed every part of the book except for the first quarter of it. So if you haven't read Sweet Friday Island, I think you should.

I loved this book! I know want to get my own copy. This book totally captivated me in every way. It has an amazing story plot and climax. If Iwas the author I would have changed the ending though. It ended to abrubtly, no downhill climax. But still it was great. I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys books on survival or exploring, or just likes to read a wonderfully captivating book! :-̃

This book was fantastic. It scared my while I was reading and seemed so realistic. The end is excellent, too, and makes sense, while other books can throw you off at the ending or seem really stupid.

This book is a about a teenager named Peg and her father. Every year they go camping. However, this time they camp out in the wrong place. On a island in Mexico there is a crazy man in the area. This island is the one Peg is going to. Although they have been warned to not visit this islad they still do. Once on the island their boat was destroyed by the man. Peg and her father worked to servive all the harsh things the man does. Then her father decides to kill him before he kills them. They make gasoline bombs. However pegs father is ill and she is forced to protect her father with the bombs. When through one at him in the cave and retrived their things. Later they learn he is a crimanal one the run and is still alive. A few years later Peg returns to the iland one last time to learn that the same woman who warned they of the danger was that crazy man's wife.
My favorite part in this book is when is when Peg goes in search of the man. She goes around the island and finds him in his hut. She lights the straw hut on fire. Somehow he is able to get away. then she chases him into a cave. she realizes he is trapped and throws one of the bombs. the blast seferly injured him.
I liked this part because it got me excited. I forgot I was reading. All these images in my head. The text was very descriptive. The ending was fast and different from other endings.

This book was one of the best adventure books I have read. The story was wonderful and believable. It kept me on the edge of my seat, wanting to keep on reading. I rated this book only four stars because the beginning could have been better and the ending was to abrupt.

Sweet Friday Island

Do you like mysteries? Well if you do Sweet Friday Island is for you. Peg Toland and her father Sam go on a camping trip on the coast of Mexico. They are all alone on the island or so they think. Strange things start to happen on Sweet Friday Island. They soon realize they are not alone on Sweet Friday.

Peg's father said give me an empty jar, gasoline and some old rope or something.

When it was all done he gave it to Peg and said you will need this. When Peg's father goes in to a coma Peg has to face her fears. Now she knows she and the crazy guy are all alone on the island with no way to get off of it. Sweet Friday is a test of Survival and Independence. When Peg realizes that there only way to get off the island is in her hands she has to step up and find a way to get off the island. She has to think of a way to let any one know that they are on the island and need help.

Peg needs to think fast the surplus of food and water they had is almost gone. Her father is going deeper and deeper in to a coma. Peg remembers other camping trips but not one was like this one. She can remember saying I like a little adventure but not to this level. No boats go by the island so Peg has to think unique.

Peg found a pan and went to the top of a hill and flashed it around no one came. She just thought why didn't I bring my cell phone? Why didn't I go to church? What was dad talking about before? And what is that noise behind me?

Overall Taylor Theodore did a wonderful job on Sweet Friday Island. I would recommend this book to any one who likes survival stories. This story has showed me a lot about people. And don't always judge a book by its cover. Most importantly always have a cell phone

Sweet Friday Island

Do you like mysteries? Well if you do Sweet Friday Island is for you. Peg Toland and her father Sam go on a camping trip on the coast of Mexico. They are all alone on the island or so they think. Strange things start to happen on Sweet Friday Island. They soon realize they are not alone on Sweet Friday.

Peg's father said give me an empty jar, gasoline and some old rope or something.

When it was all done he gave it to Peg and said you will need this. When Peg's father goes in to a coma Peg has to face her fears. Now she knows she and the crazy guy are all alone on the island with no way to get off of it. Sweet Friday is a test of Survival and Independence. When Peg realizes that there only way to get off the island is in her hands she has to step up and find a way to get off the island. She has to think of a way to let any one know that they are on the island and need help.

Peg needs to think fast the surplus of food and water they had is almost gone. Her father is going deeper and deeper in to a coma. Peg remembers other camping trips but not one was like this one. She can remember saying I like a little adventure but not to this level. No boats go by the island so Peg has to think unique.

Peg found a pan and went to the top of a hill and flashed it around no one came. She just thought why didn't I bring my cell phone? Why didn't I go to church? What was dad talking about before? And what is that noise behind me?

Overall Taylor Theodore did a wonderful job on Sweet Friday Island. I would recommend this book to any one who likes survival stories. This story has showed me a lot about people. And don't always judge a book by its cover. Most importantly always have a cell phone

I really liked this book because I love suspencful adventurous books and this was one of the best ones I ever read. I was at the edge of my seat when they first got stranded. Ithought they were going to be there for a really long time. I also couldn't put the book down when Peg's father first got sick because she didn't have the survival kit so I wanted to know what she was going to use. I would recommend this book to any one because this book is seriously that good. I loved it. It was very suspencful and full of adventure.

i liked sweet friday island a lot it was very different than most of the books i read so when i my libraian recomended it i thought i would read it. I was hesitant at first because the beggining was a bit boring but after 15 or so pages it got really interesting i finished it in 2 hours thats 1 day! it was very nice to read although it ended very quickly which i didnt like if it had a better ending and a more interesting beginning i would have given it 5 stars

I thought that this book was totally messed up with strange plot and characters, who never really made sense to me throughout the entire book. The story skipped around a lot and I was constantly confused by the way the author worded it and the way scenes suddenly changed. Although it had some bad points, I felt that the storyline was great and had some good ideas that really held my interest up to the climax. If I had to rate it I'd give it threee stars because it was a good book but it could use a lot of work to make it great. The beginning was so boring and I almost gave up on it and it took a long time for me to understand why I needed to know what they were talking about. I would recomend this book to anyone who's as patient as I am because a lot of people would not want to read the rest of the book and quit after the first few chapters. I think this book deserves the title of 'by far the strangest book I've ever read.' I was disappointed because I thought the ending was so stupid compared to the good parts of the book. The end was way too rushed and I truly thought that it could be much better.