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Loading... Gotcha!by Shelley Hrdlitschka
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It's "bead season" at slippery rock high. This year the bead-snatching grad game called "Gotcha" has been banned as an official school activity because the teachers have decided to put an end to a dangerous tradition. After paying an entry fee, the players are given a bead and someone's name. The object of the game is to snatch the bead of your victim and take their name. The winner ends up with all the beadsā??and all the money. After the game is banned, it becomes even more appealing. The game goes underground and more grads than ever are participating. Katie is reluctant to join in, but as a member of grad council she feels she has to go along. The game quickly spins out of control. Katie finds herself losing friends and falling victim to her classmates' obsession with the game. She considers dropping out of the game but then devises a better way of getting even with her classmates. Katie finds herself sliding further and further down the chute that leads to disaster. Can she bring a safe end to this deadly ga No library descriptions found. |
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Katie is a senior at Slippery Rock High. At SRH, it's a tradition to play Gotcha! -- a game where each student gets a bead on a string and the name of a classmate to tag and steal their bead. Katie, however, isn't very interested in the game -- especially not after what happened the previous year.
But because she's part of the grad council, and everyone else wants to do it, she plays along.
Friendships are ruined and relationships are formed when this potentially dangerous game gets under way. And if the drama of the game wasn't enough for Katie, she also has to deal with her father, who moved out, and her mother, who sits around and eats all day.
Shelley Hrdlitschka writes an interesting book that looks at what adrenaline and competitiveness can do to humans, how it can change them. The book has many plot twists that keeps the reader engaged and wanting more. (