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Private School #5
The Enemy Within
Trapped like a Fly - In a Web of Mounting Terror
The aliens were taking over. At first, Jennifer thought the horrible menace was confined to posh Thaler Academy. But now, she and her friends were beginning to realize that no one could be trusted. Not even the police.
The terror was growing. The hideous creatures that roamed the school grounds assumed human forms. And worse yet, the unearthly beasts knew about Jennifer-and her plan to expose them. Could she stop the escalating nightmare before the aliens bound the key to Earth's ultimate destruction?
The aliens were taking over. At first, Jennifer thought the horrible menace was confined to posh Thaler Academy. But now, she and her friends were beginning to realize that no one could be trusted. Not even the police.
The terror was growing. The hideous creatures that roamed the school grounds assumed human forms. And worse yet, the unearthly beasts knew about Jennifer-and her plan to expose them. Could she stop the escalating nightmare before the aliens bound the key to Earth's ultimate destruction?
- GenresHorrorYoung Adult
147 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1986
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April 20, 2025
Getting down to the end, my friends.
For two days and three nights, Jennifer and her friends have had to take shelter in the woods. The last wolf-like alien they fought told them that now they had nowhere else to go so going back to Thaler Academy would be a death sentence. Jennifer thought that police detective Jack Rumbel could believe them and help them, but the man ran away like a coward.
The teens are on their own...or so it seems at first.
Surprisingly, Gordon Chang's mother believes the story once she hides her son and his friends from both the aliens and the police. Rumbel came to question her, but Mrs. Chang played it cool of how she only knows the police are accusing her son of theft and larceny. However, Mrs. Chang has known Jack Rumbel all her life here in Staines before she even married Gordon's father, so she relates to the teenagers that the usually cocky detective...seemed scared.
They could end leading the aliens to Mrs. Chang so when the time comes, Jennifer and her friends make their way back to Thaler Academy. Everybody that Jennifer thought she could trust among her schoolmates has been revealed to be one of the wolves even Monica who did her best to pretend she was human. Using her anger to mask her fear, Jennifer needs one of them to lead her to their new secret lair laboratory.
It is somewhere around the shore of the lake called Witch's Eye but hidden and then guarded no doubt by the aliens because they know all about Jennifer and her friends. The plan is simple science to get in and destroy the creatures with a chemical bomb but when faced with the danger of her friends taken hostage...can Jennifer stop them from being killed or being at the center of ground zero, forced to die alongside the lupine aliens?
Actually, The Enemy Within is probably the best book out of this series because at least there is more action and the stakes are bigger. The ending of this one has a small swerve to lead into the final book so can Private School end on a high note or end on a wolfly whimper?
For two days and three nights, Jennifer and her friends have had to take shelter in the woods. The last wolf-like alien they fought told them that now they had nowhere else to go so going back to Thaler Academy would be a death sentence. Jennifer thought that police detective Jack Rumbel could believe them and help them, but the man ran away like a coward.
The teens are on their own...or so it seems at first.
Surprisingly, Gordon Chang's mother believes the story once she hides her son and his friends from both the aliens and the police. Rumbel came to question her, but Mrs. Chang played it cool of how she only knows the police are accusing her son of theft and larceny. However, Mrs. Chang has known Jack Rumbel all her life here in Staines before she even married Gordon's father, so she relates to the teenagers that the usually cocky detective...seemed scared.
They could end leading the aliens to Mrs. Chang so when the time comes, Jennifer and her friends make their way back to Thaler Academy. Everybody that Jennifer thought she could trust among her schoolmates has been revealed to be one of the wolves even Monica who did her best to pretend she was human. Using her anger to mask her fear, Jennifer needs one of them to lead her to their new secret lair laboratory.
It is somewhere around the shore of the lake called Witch's Eye but hidden and then guarded no doubt by the aliens because they know all about Jennifer and her friends. The plan is simple science to get in and destroy the creatures with a chemical bomb but when faced with the danger of her friends taken hostage...can Jennifer stop them from being killed or being at the center of ground zero, forced to die alongside the lupine aliens?
Actually, The Enemy Within is probably the best book out of this series because at least there is more action and the stakes are bigger. The ending of this one has a small swerve to lead into the final book so can Private School end on a high note or end on a wolfly whimper?
December 31, 2018
Another quick and action-packed read! The adventure continues with similar pros and cons: the adults are awefully easy to convince that aliens are among us, but the little group is still fun, the Thaler Academy setting still nice. More reveals about other aliens in this one, it was good
November 22, 2014
With the aliens close to their goal, the kids are on the run and desperate for a way to stop them. They hatch a plan that requires going back to the school and hope they can survive to save the earth.
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