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| I Know What You Did Last Summer | 
 enlarge | Author: Lois Duncan
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  253 reviews
Sales Rank: 163777
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0440228441
EAN: 9780440228448
ASIN: 0440228441
Publication Date: April 6, 1999
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Product Description
It was only an accident -- but it would change their lives forever. Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But some secrets don't stay buried, and someone has learned the truth. Someone bent on revenge. This summer, the horror is only beginning....
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Despite the New Cover, Not the Movie July 1, 2001
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
Lois Duncan is a skilled writer of children's suspense tales and I Know What You Did Last Summer is one of her best or certainly, because of the successful movie and sequal, one of her most famous. I originally read it in the seventies and was thrilled with it and became a fan of Lois Duncan and have since read it in the wake of seeing the movie and the book still holds up in the category of suspense. The lead character is well developed and very strongly written while the supporting characters add nice window dressing to the whole endeavor. People expecting the horror, gore, and death toll of the movie will be dissappointed. This is teen suspense of the old school variety.
Better Book Than Movie March 3, 2000
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
When I first saw "I Know What You Did Last Summer" on video, I loved it. And when I saw a kid in my sixth grade class reading it, I went to the library and put my name on the waiting list. After I got it and read it, I found how different it was from the movie. I can say this--it is better than the movie. It may not be as action packed, but it is a thriller! I hope "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is just as great! -A.J.
 And you should be ashamed August 8, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
As this thriller opens high school senior Julie discovers that she has been accepted into a prestigious East Coast college, but in the same mail came cryptic message 'I know what you did last summer'. Unfortunately Julie knows all to well what the message refers to. Last summer Julie, her boyfriend and another couple had been in a hit and run accident, an accident that had killed a little boy. The four teens had decided not to come forward and take responsibility for the accident. It was a decision that they had all come to regret but one that they felt they could not change now. But now it seemed that someone else knew their secret.
This novel is geared for the 'young adult' market and speaks to themes that teens would be able to relate to - young love, impulsive acts, class consciousness, parental conflict and peer pressure. The plot is more than a bit transparent, most will guess who the mysterious note writer is fairly early on, the characterizations are equally obvious but the action keeps the novel moving and, particularly for the target audience, is an interesting read.
 Summertime February 28, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've read several Lois Duncan books and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is by far the most surprising and suspenseful of them all. I have once watched the movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer" a while back and remember it to be hardly interesting. The book version however, was much more appealing to the mind than the movie was. The book has the same basic as the movie did with the same four main characters, Julie, Helen, Ray and Barry. It starts out the same with a car accident with a stranger in the beginning that comes back to haunt them the next summer, with threats and later into more killings and suspense than the movie had to offer. The entire story leaves you hanging on the tip of your chair from suspense at its finest. The ending was different from what I had originally expected and I'm sure other readers of this book feel the same. I recommend all mystery/horror and Lois Duncan readers to read this book if they have the time and interest in this type of book or are a fan of Lois Duncan's workings. I rate this book with 5 stars because of my high level of interest and concern throughout the entire book.
One of my all time favorite books August 23, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
First of all I wanted to say that this book is nothing like the movie. It had the same basic plot, but thats about it. As many movies that are based on books, the book is a lot better. This story is about four teens who accidentely hit a kid riding his bike while they were drunk and speeding, they did as much as they could to cover up the murder, but one year later one of the teens gets a note that says "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER." Next, the person that wrote the note starts blackmailing them by leaving newspaper articles about the hit and run, and pictures of them standing by the kid after the acident. Eventually he begins threatening them. The teens know that they need to find out who knows what they did, before they are either found out by police, or even worse killed by the blackmailer. This book is very suspenseful and it has a lot of twists in the plot. Its a must read for fans of any book fan.
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