School of Fear
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4.6 • 124 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Everyone is afraid of something...
Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders.
Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying.
Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces.
Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water.
With very few options left, the parents of these four twelve year-olds send them to the highly elusive and exclusive School of Fear to help them overcome their phobias. But when their peculiar teacher, Mrs. Wellington, and her unconventional teaching methods turn out to be more frightening than even their fears, the foursome realize that this just may be the scariest summer of their lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Imagine a humorous middle-grade novel by a less self-absorbed Woody Allen to get an idea of this intelligent and witty children's debut. Daneshvari assembles a precocious cast of 12- and 13-year-olds with outsize fears, including Madeleine, whose obsessive fear of insects keeps her drenched in bug repellant; Theo, "the most dramatic, hysterical, and neurotic boy in the borough of Manhattan"; brazen Lulu, with crippling claustrophobia; and hydrophobic Garrison. Desperate families entrust these kids to Mrs. Wellington, the snarky "deranged beauty queen" of a headmistress at the secretive and fairly terrifying School of Fear ("Perhaps when the summer is finished you'll write a letter to the board of camps to complain," Mrs. Wellington tells the children when they learn they are the sole campers. "And please do not let the board's hypothetical status deter you"). What ensues is tautly paced, spine-tingling and quite funny, as the children overcome their fears and learn to work as a team. The ending proves as clever as the premise and shows that while everyone is afraid of something, tremendous achievements can be won by facing fear head-on. Final art not seen by PW. Ages 8 12.
Customer Reviews
School of Fear
This book is a suspenseful action packed easy read. If your in the mood for light reading this is the book for you!
Best Book Ever
Great book, very funny, I read it during all of my free time (including at the nail salon :) ). My favorite character was either Shmity or Lulu. I would recommend this book to every one because after you start it you can't put it down. Before I finished the first book, I was already begging for the second! I thought it was funny how shmity did Mrs. Wellinglton's makeup.
Best book EVER!!!
I love this book so much! I can't wait for the other ones to come out! I keep reading it over and over!! ;)