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Lois Duncan Message Board 1/1/2012
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A Gift of Magic
When Nancy's parents get divorced and her mom moves her brother, sister and her to her old town in Florida, Nancy just wishes her dad and mom would get back together, a prospect which becomes unlikely when her mom starts to have a romantic interest in her old high school boyfriend. The boyfriend's job is trying to find out what extra sensory perception is, and Nancy has ESP. She doesn't want her mom's boyfriend to make her into a lab rat. The ESP was ...
Gallows Hill
Sarah Zoltanneis a teenager who recently moved to a small town with her mom, to live with her mom's boyfriend and when she has supernatural experiences, she is branded as a witch by the conservative town, mimicking much of the history relating to the Salem Witch Trials. Sarah Zoltanneis loved her old life in California and that she was her mother's only child and hates that now she is stuck in a conservative town, in an old house and that now she and her...
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan's book, "I Know What You Did Last Summer", spawned the movie of the same title, and its sequal, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer". Julie and her three friends had ran over a young boy on his bike, and killed him. In a fit of panic, they decided to drive away, and make a pact never to tell another living person. It has been a year, and the group has fallen apart. But strange accidents are happening, first to Barry, then to Helen. An...
Killing Mr. Griffin
Mark Kinney is a miss-led teenager who has had enough of his strict English teacher, Mr. Griffin. Mr. Griffin believes that an 'A' is perfect and no-one is perfect - so he gives his students average marks, which they believe are not appropriate. Mark therefore gets a group of unlikely teenagers together and he plots a plan to kidnap Mr. Griffin, to teach ‘him' a lesson. After much deliberation with his newly acquired group they start with the well-th...

Duncan booklist

Locked in Time
Nore Robbins is a 17 year old girl who buried her mother a year ago and went to boarding school soon after, but now that her father has remarried and she has two step-siblings she visits for the summer and is horrified to realize her new family members are immortal. Nore Robbins has lived through more than most 17 year olds and finding that her father, Chuck, has remarried barely a year after her mom's death s very hard for her. It's worsened when she vi...
Ransom
Ransom by Lois Duncan, is about five teens, Dexter, Jesse, Bruce, Glenn, and Marianne that are kidnapped from their bus coming home from school. The story takes place in Albuquerque. All five students have the same thing in common, they are all from the same part, Valley Gardens (where the more wealthy people live) and that's why they were the ones who are kidnapped. I liked this book, it had a good story to it and was interesting, although there were ...
Stranger With My Face
Laurie Stratton is a regular teenager until she discovers that she was born an identical twin who was separated from her sister at birth and her sister shows her how to astral project, just as she has been doing to find Laurie. Laurie Stratton is the oldest child of three. She has had a good family and has grown up knowing that she is loved. In addition, she looks nothing like the rest of her family. She is a high school student and has recently begun da...