Point Horror: The Caroline B. Cooney Special Edition

by Caroline B. Cooney

Freeze Tag
Freeze Tag is no ordinary game when Lannie is playing. When she tags someone, they really do freeze...

The Stranger
Nicoletta can think of nothing but Jethro-the mysterious newcomer in her class. But why does he look so sinister, and feel so deathly cold...

Twins
Mary Lee wishes she could live her twin sister's life. But when her wish comes true Mary Lee starts to find out just how different Madrigal is...

378 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Caroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. I started writing then and never stopped!"
When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people -- with remarkable results. She began to sell stories to Seventeen magazine and soon after began writing books. Suspense novels are her favorites to read and write. "In a suspense novel, you can count on action."
To keep her stories realistic, Caroline visits many schools outside of her area, learning more about teenagers all the time. She often organizes what she calls a "plotting game," in which students work together to create plots for stories. Caroline lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and when she's not writing she volunteers at a hospital, plays piano for the school musicals and daydreams!
- Scholastic.com

Reviews

[Farah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Caroline. B. Cooney must eulogize at my funeral because the sentence 'Bianca and Mindy crawled into the room like great big fashionable mice' killed me.

Overall entirely bizarre with the second story being perhaps the most ludicrous - girl falls in love with a cave-boy, that is a boy that is part cave/sand/rock.

I blame the wonderfully sarcastic blog rsvpordie for my obsession with PH books - for a better review of Twins than I could ever muster check out: http://rsvpordie.blogspot.co.uk/searc...

[Kayleigh Hyde · Rating 5 out of 5]

Starting the year off with some point horror re-reads, and I actually really enjoyed all 3 of these stories!
I’m looking forward to finding more of my old favourites :-)