Planet Doom (Adventure)

by Anne E. Schraff

THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two teens are trapped by a strange old man in a mysterious, half-ruined amusement park and must confront the history of his son's failed baseball career.

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Anne Elaine Schraff grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University at Northridge and taught high school for ten years.

Anne paid her way through college by writing short stories for magazines. Since college she has written hundreds of stories and over eighty books including historical fiction, biographies, science books, and her favorite, fictional books for young people. She is published as both Anne Schraff and Anne E. Schraff.

Her background, which she describes as "multicultural, lower middle-class neighborhood, including African Americans, Mexican Americans, Arab Americans, and Filipino Americans," is her greatest inspiration when writing.

Reviews

[Anh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like this book because when you first read, it kinda give you a quick action right away. That's what I like about it. I don't like much about the ending because it doesn't talk about what happens next, what are they gonna do about that amusement park. I still have a lot of question about it.

[Trang Tran · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a really good book. This book talk about the amusement park that are made by Eddie Scott. Everyone are all hate him, they called him a loser and he died at age 25. The amusement was burn down, the amusement is starting mystery, every kid that came here all disappeared and never came back . Once, there is a couple named Joanna and Reggie want to explore this place. They took some fun rides in the amusement park and then when they were exploring, they met one man that is really weird and scared. They are now trying to get out of here. In the end of the story, the weird man is Eddie Scott's father, he is the protector of the amusement park. He wants to make the amusement alive when his son is not alive anymore. At first, I read this book, I thought this will be the really scared book but when I finished the book, at the end of the book is really sad. I hope that anyone that read this book will really like it.

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. We purchased this as a hi-lo title for our library. It was an okay read. I found it strange that at the beginning of the story the author refers to the main characters as being in high school two years previous and are now taking classes at a community college. It sounded as if they had graduated and were college students. Later in the book they are referred to as teenagers. Did this throw off anyone else?

[Garrit Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book because it had a creepy aspect to it.There was a creepy old man who kept following the main characters. The reason I did not give it five stars is the antagonist was not who I thought it was. But on the other part it had lots of mystery. The main characters did not expect someone to be living in the park. I recommend this book to younger readers that like mystery books.