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Speak (2006), 181 pages
Description
After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good.
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LibraryThing member jsjohnso
We only know the main character as Red Rider. He had a Radio Flier wagon as a kid and now has a blood red mustang that her fixed up for the past two years--he has just turned 16. As the story begins, Red's mother is sending him to his grandmother's to deliver some "bread"(i.e., money.) He should go
Doesn't sound like Grandmother
What big hair you have grandmother
What ganrly teeth tyou have grandmother
What hairy knuckles you have grandmother
... and Cedric Soames (bad leader of a gang) springs from the bed to get the money. Throws Red Rider into the basement with Grandma. Cedric had his gang of Wolves with him.
Ganndma and Red decide to get the money back and they team up with Marissa to discover that the guys in the gang are werevolves. Marissa had Xavier Soames (Cederc's Great Grandfather's skull.) It could detect people who were werewolves (it turned into a beast for those who were not.)
Werewolves were in their town in the 1930 and were now back as were the hunters. Grandmother turned out to be a hunter on her motercycle. The Cryps were a female gang after the wolves. In the end they got the wolves in an old dance club. Grandma and Marissa rigged the disco ball to drop as a weapon--with silverware piercing the werewolves and making them die. Cerric escaped but Red Rider got him. A yuear later Ceric's skull appears in Red Rider's room and continues to return on full moons but does not come back to life.
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straight there but does not. He is stopped at an inatersection by a guy cleaning his windshiled and looking in his car. It is Marvin Flowers--Marvelous Marvin past quarterback at Madison-Manfred High who has dropped out of college. Marvin sends Red to the Antique Shop to see his sister--Marissa. When he finally gets to his grandmothers things are weird--Doesn't sound like Grandmother
What big hair you have grandmother
What ganrly teeth tyou have grandmother
What hairy knuckles you have grandmother
... and Cedric Soames (bad leader of a gang) springs from the bed to get the money. Throws Red Rider into the basement with Grandma. Cedric had his gang of Wolves with him.
Ganndma and Red decide to get the money back and they team up with Marissa to discover that the guys in the gang are werevolves. Marissa had Xavier Soames (Cederc's Great Grandfather's skull.) It could detect people who were werewolves (it turned into a beast for those who were not.)
Werewolves were in their town in the 1930 and were now back as were the hunters. Grandmother turned out to be a hunter on her motercycle. The Cryps were a female gang after the wolves. In the end they got the wolves in an old dance club. Grandma and Marissa rigged the disco ball to drop as a weapon--with silverware piercing the werewolves and making them die. Cerric escaped but Red Rider got him. A yuear later Ceric's skull appears in Red Rider's room and continues to return on full moons but does not come back to life.
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Awards
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (Selection — 2006)
Original language
English
Physical description
181 p.; 4.2 inches
ISBN
0142406783 / 9780142406786